Word: passageway
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...fuel. The fire fighters watched in helpless horror as the steel bulkheads of the flare locker started ballooning under the 7,000° heat inside. The steel hatch blasted open with a great gout of flame that engulfed the hangar and sent fire balls rocketing down every passageway, igniting two helicopters. Five sailors were burned alive...
...well, a shaded hammock for the village chief. A dozen "Viet Cong" defenders-infantry troops who have completed their training and are awaiting assignment to Viet Nam-wear black pajamas and conical peasant hats. Underneath the village snakes a maze of tunnels that connect each hut to a passageway leading under the village wall. When the trainees attack, some villagers usually slip into the tunnels to get away; those who are captured and interrogated try to convince their captors that they are loyal peasants...
...quickly set them straight. "We've got power," said Mele, "and we can run, too." Even the fact that Las Vegas odds makers picked the Dodgers as heavy favorites (at 2-3) to win the Series failed to rattle the Twins. Newsmen noticed three signs hanging in the passageway between the Minnesota clubhouse and the field...
...couldn't see him. I was in the tube. The missile was in there. I got out of there." Lay and Saunders escaped through the tunnel leading to the single access portal. They were followed by Alan Aincham, 19, who had been posted in the passageway to check that workers in the silo carried no matches or articles that could strike a spark. Said Aincham: "It felt like there was a hurricane outside, and you had opened the door and let the wind hit you in the face." No smoke or noise carried to the surface. When Aincham raced...
...four-by-four brace has been applied to the inside of the passageway to help pinpoint the source of the trouble...