Word: holocaust
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...gigantic halfback tackled behind the knees and falling forward on its face. The huge bag settled slowly to earth with fire roaring over it 50 yd. a second. Last place it reached was the passenger section in the belly, about one-third back from the bow. Silhouetted by the holocaust, passengers began dropping out of the windows like peas from a collander. From the control cabin swarmed officers and crew. Struggling figures emerged from the blazing hulk, stumbled, rose, fell again in fiery suffocation or from broken legs, shock, concussion. Down on the slowest ones then smashed the enormous incandescent...
...miles. This was 42,800,000 passenger-miles per fatality or about twice as good as the air's best record. In 1936, though the lines equaled their most favorable record for crashes (eight), they killed a record number of passengers (44) because ships have got bigger. This holocaust has lately shrunk public confidence in flying to new lows, caused a terrific din of discussions about air safety. This week the April issue of FORTUNE summarizes air safety in the most thorough and lucid article on the subject to date. And last week a committee...
...United States cannot have peace, regardless of the good will of the Western Hemisphere, until she erects defenses against every possible motive for our participating in another European holocaust...
...this fantastic idea is the minute cross-shaped mark, more like a trade mark than a Church symbol, cut in the halberd of one of the Gods. At the right, as yet unfinished, there will be shown a sleeper awakening, standing for the regenerated race of man after the holocaust at Asgard...
...able to read in clear, concise, pithy phraseology of world events, even if the events themselves be of muddled nature, is very satisfying. The succinct remark about Miss MacDonald's tooth acting and the holocaust of letters it involved was most cheering...