Word: flame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel's surveillance and emergency reaction systems failed during the landing and deadly ride of the terrorist raiding party from Kibbutz Ma'agan Mikha'el to the Tel Aviv Country Club, where the bus and its passengers were halted in a storm of gunfire and flame...
Yale threatened once late in the game, closing to 53-52 with three minutes remaining, but Tomasiewicz and the Tigers quickly extinguished any Eli flame with some blistering outside shots...
With each day's entry, Goebbels dutifully records the latest evidence of the Reich's impending collapse. Cologne is "a great city which has been turned into a heap of ruins," Dessau "a sheet of flame and totally destroyed. Yet another German city which has been largely flattened." The air war has become "a crazy orgy. We are totally defenseless against it. The Reich will gradually be turned into a complete desert." After receiving word on March 19 that Würzburg has been bombed, Goebbels laments: "So the last beautiful German city still intact has now gone...
Most of the crew members from the ships took to lifeboats, but some leaped into the water; all but two were rescued. One of them was plucked out of the shark-infested sea by Harold Mockford, a fearless helicopter pilot who also flew through flame and smoke to save 13 men who had been trapped aboard the Venoil. The rest of the survivors were rescued by two passing British merchant ships...
...hardwood burned in a sound stove will deliver as much heat as 166 gal. of #2 fuel oil (Massachusetts price: about 48? per gal.), or 6,290 kilowatt hours of electricity (about $330 worth), or 264 therms of natural gas ($97). No wonder Americans are returning to their old flame...