Word: towered
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...minutes before the south tower collapsed, an apparently coordinated strike occurred in the nation’s capital, as American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into a wall of the Pentagon, the headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defense...
...utter disbelief, I could see smoke and flames devouring the top third of the north tower. The bitter smell of smoke burned in my nose...
...Like a scene in a Jerry Bruckheimer film, a big black foreboding jet came from out of nowhere and crashed into the south tower...
...planes were loaded with fuel for transcontinental flights, and that jet fuel ignited a hellish blaze that sent temperatures at the point of impact soaring to an estimated 2000 degrees F. Within an hour, the intense heat caused the seemingly invincible steel beams of the towers to melt like cotton candy. At 10 a.m. EST, the southern tower of the World Trade Center was enveloped in smoke after a second, gigantic explosion, and part of that tower collapsed and was destroyed. About twenty minutes later, the northern tower imploded. At 5 p.m. EST, weakened by the impact and heat...
...Tuesday wore on, more evacuations were reported across the nation, including at Chicago?s Sears Tower, as city governments scrambled to secure downtown areas. Workers were sent home early and schools were closed...