Word: infernos
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...beyond mere recording. Describing the ruthless German blitz of undefended Belgrade, before Hitler had turned on Russia, he writes: "Out of the nightmare of smoke and fire came the maddened animals released from their shattered cages in the zoological gardens ... A bear, dazed and uncomprehending, shuffled through the inferno with slow and awkward gait down towards the Danube. He was not the only bear who did not understand...
These in the know in the ski country report that there is a better than even chance that the American Inferno, the top race of the spring skiing season, will be run this year. Mr. Washington, is at the moment boasting a thick coat of snow and unless there is a sudden thaw, there will be enough snow left in April to run the race. More people have broken legs coming down the headwall at Washington than any other spot in New England, an added attraction for spectators...
...miles southeast of Guadalcanal, three Jap torpedoes struck home. Fire reared high from her ruptured tanks; gasoline spread around her in a sea of flames. Like many another skipper, Sherman had long before figured out just what he would do if he "caught a fish." In an inferno of smoke and exploding ammunition, he maneuvered his ship so that the flames blew away from the hull, backed her stern clear of the flaming, gasoline-covered water. Sherman was the last man to leave. He was burned, and badly shaken up by depth charges while he was in the water...
...Vintage, Author West explores two worlds: 1) an imagined purgatory which borrows nothing from such Godfearing models as Dante's Inferno but has much in common with the Godless statism of George Orwell's 1084; 2) the real British middle-class world of John Wallis seen through numerous flashbacks. Neither exploration is wholly successful. Wallis' purgatory, with its concentration-camp pall and forced pleasure-resort atmosphere is skillfully but too obviously contrived. Wallis' real-life experience, with its high quota of banal woman trouble, comes close to being boring...
...Nine months of winter, and three months of inferno" is an old yet apt Spanish adage. Those few Americans who braved climatic considerations, and waded through the red tape to obtain a visa to a dictatorship, found themselves in the hottest (121 degrees and higher was not unusual), dryest, poorest, and most isolated of Europe's states...