Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...riches of coal. At 8 p.m. last Tuesday, 265 miners lost that gamble when a methane explosion bellowed from deep within the Incirharmani mine outside the city of Kozlu, instantly transforming miles of galleries into a subterranean conflagration of toxic gas. Rescuers pulled out 118 bodies before the inferno forced them to seal the passages with cinder blocks, entombing the remaining victims in the still burning mine...
...choosing, however, and haven't tried to transfer, then I must rephrase the imperative toward rootedness. That is to say: I still must insist that you do, indeed, go and eat in your own damn house. Just because you've condemned yourselves to the last level of the Inferno is no excuse for making our lives a dining hell...
...will probably never be known why bags of ammunition designed for the ship's 16-in. guns ignited during loading, creating the inferno in which the men died. And despite Kelso's expression of regret that Hartwig was blamed for the incident "without clear and convincing proof," his family is not dropping a $40 million lawsuit against the Navy for soiling the dead man's name...
Both had finished in last place, the Braves with a 65-97 record that left them an imposing 26 games behind Cincinnati, the Twins 74-88, 29 games back of Oakland. These teams looked like candidates for Dante's Inferno--"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here...
...morning shift had just started when an overhead hydraulic line ruptured, spilling its volatile fluid onto the floor. Gas burners under the frying vats ignited the vapors and turned the 30,000-sq.-ft. plant into an inferno of flame and thick, yellow smoke. Panicked employees rushed for emergency exits only to find several of them locked. "I thought I was gone, until a man broke the lock off," says Letha Terry, one of the survivors. Twenty-five of Terry's fellow employees were not so lucky. Their bodies were found clustered around the blocked doorways or trapped...