Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...referring to last week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejection of a freeze resolution, said, "We will remember that vote in November." Other speakers remembered August 1945: survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings spoke in Japanese, translated for the crowd, of their firsthand visions of "a living inferno...
...there were men down there, but we didn't know how many." After hours of unsuccessful fire fighting, Salt made the agonizing decision to abandon ship. Later he returned to his command by helicopter to view the damage. The Sheffield had refused to sink, but it remained an inferno. Recalled Salt: "The whole of the working area of the ship was a roaring mass of flames. We could see right down into the engine room...
...same guy who had travelled with my Mets into the way-below-1500 doldrums of the NL East, like Dante into the depths of the Inferno, was actually managing a division-leading ball club. He must have endured purgatory some time during the offseason. I thought to myself...
...heavily guarded Ilopango military airport. They placed explosive charges around some of the country's fleet of venerable fighter aircraft and 14 U.S.-built UH-1H "Huey" helicopters and then escaped undetected. At 1:30 a.m., the bombs went off and parts of the airport became an inferno...
...turned to straight acting and won an Oscar nomination (his first) for his performance in The Towering Inferno. And last year he took a wife: Pioneer Jockey Robyn Smith...