Word: infernos
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...Towering Inferno (1974): Of its kind, rather good. Get the actors off and the stunt men on as quick...
...camps, "I was savage in an inferno where Eichmann's reality eclipsed Dante's vision of hell. I reacted with the nervous system in a frenzy to hang on. Harvard marked a redemption. Here the mind began to soar and the struggle for moral and intellectual survival began. It was a struggle that begin in Australia at the age of 18, after I hadn't been in a classroom for six years...
...chemical weapons, but forbade these methods if they "entirely escape from the control of man" or cause the "annihilation of all human life within the radius of action." Pius, who denounced saturation bombing even before the inferno of Hiroshima, declared that wars of righteous aggression, in order to punish an offense or to recover territory, could no longer be justified because modern weaponry had become so devastating. Wars of national self-defense, however, were still permitted...
...residents of Lowell House have been subjected to 46 false alarms so far this fall. While living in the midst of the renovations has been convenient, the smoke detector's seeming inability to distinguish between a six-alarm inferno and a cockroach breaking wind has become an intolerable imposition. It is incredible that something that disrupts the live of four hundred and fifty people has been allowed to continue this long...
Time present and time past. Both are vividly evoked in diametrically opposed plays now running in New York City theaters. David Mamet's Edmond gazes hypnotically into the bubbling cauldron of the modern urban inferno. All egos are rampant, all values degraded, all souls for sale, all hope abandoned. Hell on the installment plan...