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Word: quinault (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the two ships, Quinault Victory and E. A. Bryan, exploded within five seconds of each other, filling the sky with an enormous, blinding incandescence. A howling gale blew and died away as air roared back into the vast vacuum. Then great chunks of twisted metal from the ships and jagged fragments of exploded shells began falling. The people of Port Chicago, asleep seconds before, began calling out in the darkness amid the falling walls of their wrecked town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Strange Cargo | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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