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Word: infernos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply be tossed off as too conservative. There can be no forgiveness, no compassion for the criminal who kills. He should face a barren and hopeless life of incarceration. Perhaps the 50 states should, together, build a giant maximum- security prison in the desert. Reinvent Dante's Inferno. Let its inhabitants languish and be forgotten by all Americans. Just don't kill them for me. I don't want to be a murderer. Ted Bundy is dead. Would that he were sitting in an empty cell contemplating his crimes for the next 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Politicians, Voters and Voltage | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...Peter O'Brien was driving by on the A74 highway. "The whole sky lit up as though it was daylight," he said later. "The car behind me was engulfed in flames, and houses were suddenly on fire, as if petrol had been sprayed over them. It was an incredible inferno." Recalled truck driver John McGuinness: "I'm sure the plane was on fire before it crashed. It looked like a red sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror In the Night: The Crash of Pan Am Flight 103 | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

Remember the movie Towering Inferno? That's what should happen to Marvel Gym in Brown...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Best and Worst Places to Watch the Ivy League Play | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

...with its faulty guidance system. The propellant ignited as workers were removing a device used in the fueling process. Flames shot 50 ft. into the air, and the remote building was reduced to twisted pieces of metal. The five workers in the building had no chance to flee the inferno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Grounded: Another setback for the shuttle | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

Suddenly, without warning, the Victor, a Philippine tanker carrying 8,800 bbl. of petroleum products, collided with the Dona Paz. Immediately, the tanker's cargo ignited, setting the sea aflame. As the inferno engulfed both ships, dozens of passengers leaped, diving deep to avoid the burning waters. Swimming beyond the fiery oil, Eugenio Orot, 27, surfaced hundreds of feet away from the ferry. As the anguished screams of children calling "Nanay!" (mother) and "Tatay!" (father) echoed around him, he searched desperately for his two children and wife, but to no avail. Within four hours, the Dona Paz and the Victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Off Mindoro, a Night to Remember | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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