Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...palm trees into flaming torches and sending crowds scurrying to the water's edge. There were fathers looking for children, children looking for pets. It was impossible to see through the wall of flame and smoke and everyone was sure their house was gone. Like sinners in the inferno, they ran in circles, blown by the winds, while lifeguards patrolled the beach to insure that in the hysteria, none ran back into the flames...
...militiamen spent the night at slaughter, calling on the Israeli army to send up hundreds of flares and star shells over the camps to illuminate their bloody work. "Thursday night was an inferno," recalls a medical worker at Gaza Hospital. "The sky was never dark. The shooting never stopped. The people screamed." Not content with merely shooting people, the assailants used ropes and hatchets; many of the victims were bound together and mutilated. Some people were killed in their homes, while others were dragged outside to be murdered. Judging from the debris that was left, some of the soldiers...
...were seared by flames. Said he: "I shall never forget the screaming, never." Miraculously, most of those aboard, including the pilot and ten crew members, managed to get out of the plane. But 50, most of them seated in the rear of the plane, died in the inferno, and 15 others were listed in serious condition. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board, assisting Spanish and McDonnell Douglas experts, thought the vibrations may have come from one or more blown tires. Another possibility: a failure in one of the DC-10's high-pressure, high-velocity turbofan engines...
Particularly about prices. The S.M.A.P. keeps reading about fearful rates of inflation, but he still cannot get used to surrendering 75? to enter the pestilential inferno of the New York City subway (and reading headlines wondering whether impending increases can hold the fare to $1). He can remember paying a fare of a nickel. He begrudges paying 30? for those headlines too, when the Boston Post in his boyhood cost 2?. Well, the Boston Post no longer exists; perhaps he will see the day when the New York subway no longer exists either...
...ships, pulling on life jackets and leaping into water that was sometimes aflame with burning oil. Bright orange life rafts were thrown into the sea; some immediately burst into flame as they were hit by debris from the explosions, while others were blown by fierce winds back into the inferno. The winds whipped up huge flames aboard the landing vessels, and then, as fuel tanks exploded, the ships were enveloped in black, acrid smoke...