Chicago fire of 1871, also called Great Chicago Fire, conflagration that began on October 8, 1871, and burned until early October 10, devastating an expansive swath of the city of Chicago.
Similarly, White House hopes in late 2009 and early 2010 were dashed that spring by an earlier flare-up of Europe's woes and, in April, the explosion of a BP rig that had oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico until August, devastating coastal economies.
On they charged until caught in devastating cross-fire by dismounted federals.
Beginning in 1984, an epidemic (unrecognized until 1988) devastated the western part of Upper Nile state, ultimately causing ≈100,000 deaths in a population of 280,000 over a 10-year period (3 ).
I've published the most comprehensive study of the impact of the cuts in London, calculated at £44bn and I am campaigning now – not waiting until the election – against devastating housing benefit changes.
The crusade was postponed until next spring, but a devastating storm off the coast of Sicily dissuaded Charles of Anjou and Louis's successor Philip III from any further campaigning.
Until a series of devastating IS suicide bombings in Turkish cities, Turkish forces appeared to concentrate on weakening the Kurds rather than the jihadists in Syria.
Everything is going well until Kate suffers a devastating aneurysm--at 26 weeks pregnant -- and ends up in a coma, on life support.
The most well known poxviruses are smallpox, an orthopox virus (OPV) responsible for devastating human pandemics until it was declared eradicated by the WHO in 1980, and cowpox, used in the development of the first vaccine by Edward Jenner in 1796.
In his latest memoir, Still Standing, O'Grady's accounts of looking after loved ones until they died in emaciated agony are devastating.
