When a teenager in one story helps burn the body of a man his father has killed in a senseless fight, he thinks of "all the fires the world has ever seen, fires from wars, fires from bombs," and concludes that the lingering remains of all that smoke is "now just the air we breathe".
Between the wars, fire-control directors were added for the main, secondary and anti-aircraft armament.
No such augmentation took place, and because of wars, fires and ruin the Prior and Chapter were brought to straits.
It has survived war, fire, political turmoil, financial difficulties but only now is it encountering its very first American play.
Nassau Hall has been the cornerstone of Princeton University for more than two centuries, withstanding war, fire, several renovations, student pranks, and protests.
It has survived war, fire, political turmoil and financial difficulties, but only now is it encountering its very first American play.
FitzGerald is an eminent writer and nonacademic historian, and the author of, among other things, a Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the Vietnam War, "Fire in the Lake".
Game of War: Fire Age doesn't have anywhere near a billion, or even a million, players yet — it's now being tested by tens of thousands of players in a beta version in Australia, France, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore — but that's the goal.
At about 450 years old, the Old Vine has survived war, fire and pestilence, and still produces fat bunches of red Žametovka grapes (most vines slow down at the tender age of 40).
Throughout the centuries, librarians have preserved books and records from the hazards of war, fire, and flood, and it is no idle boast to say that they have played a large part in maintaining the cultural heritage of their countries.
The FN FAL (for Fusil Automatique Léger — or light automatic rifle), produced by the Herstal factory and sold by the tens of thousands to Libya during the cold war, fire 7.62×51 NATO cartridges, which the Qaddafi government also stockpiled.
