Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ledge became too hot to hold onto, and before hallmates could come to his rescue. Picozzi fell, screaming for help, more than 20 feet to a lawn below. "It was an inferno in there," said second-year law student Greg Frizzell...
...workers began the routine task of unloading an oil tanker at the Tacoa Arricifes generating plant, 20 miles northwest of Caracas. Suddenly and inexplicably, a half-filled storage tank onshore caught fire. Ignited, the 20,000 tons of fuel already in the tank turned the site into an inferno. As hundreds of rescue workers converged on the scene, superheated gases in the same tank erupted, trapping rescuers in a curtain of fire. Then, 17 hours later, a second tank nearby exploded. In the searing heat one fire engine reportedly just melted; balls of fire rising 100 ft. into...
...Towering Inferno (1974): Of its kind, rather good. Get the actors off and the stunt men on as quick...
...camps, "I was savage in an inferno where Eichmann's reality eclipsed Dante's vision of hell. I reacted with the nervous system in a frenzy to hang on. Harvard marked a redemption. Here the mind began to soar and the struggle for moral and intellectual survival began. It was a struggle that begin in Australia at the age of 18, after I hadn't been in a classroom for six years...
...chemical weapons, but forbade these methods if they "entirely escape from the control of man" or cause the "annihilation of all human life within the radius of action." Pius, who denounced saturation bombing even before the inferno of Hiroshima, declared that wars of righteous aggression, in order to punish an offense or to recover territory, could no longer be justified because modern weaponry had become so devastating. Wars of national self-defense, however, were still permitted...