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Definition of Firestorms
1. firestorm [n] - See also: firestorm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firestorms
Literary usage of Firestorms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Frederic Solomon (1986)
"... see firestorms. Surface bursts: nuclear explosions that contact land surfaces
drawing up large amounts (about 100000 tons per megaton of yield) of dust, ..."
2. IRS Restructuring: Congressional Hearings edited by William V. Roth, Jr. (1999)
"This is inefficient at best and an invitation to political firestorms at worst.
No other agency is so managed, and there is no precedent to suggest that ..."
3. Crucibles of Hazard: Mega-Cities and Disasters in Transition by James K. Mitchell (1999)
"... by replacing the square bases with cross-belt (X) shaped ones to take account
of the possibility that massive post-earthquake firestorms might occur. ..."
4. Battlefields of the Civil War by Blair Howard (1998)
"The fighting men of both sides used them as refuge and shelter from the deadly
firestorms of cannon and musket fire. Also along the way to the next stop you ..."
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