Word: terrorstricken
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...Rescue. Before fire trucks sirened to the scene from two miles away, the fire had shot from a first-floor room up a dumb waiter, was licking through all three floors. In rows of flame-lit windows, terrorstricken women shrieked and pounded at wire mesh and steel bars which imprisoned them in cell-like rooms; before the firemen had arrived many had fallen silent and disappeared in the flames. Mrs. Anna Neal, a 55-year-old nurse on duty in the ward, led some of her patients into the night, rushed back into the fire to rescue more...
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