Word: hulks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capacities of the medical facilities. Medevac helicopters arrived at 4:30 a.m. and minutes later took off for Jacksonville with the 21 most seriously wounded crewmen. Then the reckoning of hardware destruction began: the incinerated Prowler, packed with ten jamming transmitters and computerized receivers, was a burned and twisted hulk, a $68 million loss; two of the $36 million F-14s were totaled, three others badly damaged; four A-7 Corsair II jet fighters were inoperative; ten other jets and a helicopter were less seriously banged or gashed or charred. The aggregate loss may be upwards of $150 million...
...there it is, against the library's back wall, between two racks of magazines: hundreds and hundreds of comic books thrown together in one enormous heap that is truly awesome. Batman and Superman are there, and so are a legion of other familiar super heroes: Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk Wonder Woman, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America, and the Mighty Thor...
...people aboard clambered into lifeboats and were rescued, but not before some of them were tossed about in lifeboats by stormy 25-ft. waves for as long as 13 hours. At week's end, eight days after the fire first broke out, the still burning hulk of the Prinsendam sank, leaving behind a lifeboat to mark its place and several unsettling questions about the safety of the 65 ships that take hundreds of thousands of Americans on luxury cruises each year...
...children learn fastest when driven by need and desire. They learn in sports, for instance, when instructions and rules are given only in English. Television also serves to spur the children. Says another teacher: "They're just dying to understand what's going on in The Incredible Hulk...
...lines of blue lights etched the outlines of the remote landing strip. Suddenly flames illuminated the night sky, then gradually flickered out. On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft. Nearby rested the scorched skeleton of a U.S. Navy RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter. And in the wreckage were the burned bodies of eight American military air crewmen...