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  • The phrase "nuclear hellstorm" appears in the Defense Department's Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, who allegedly confessed to masterminding the September 11 attacks and will be tried by a military tribunal.

    Crooks and Liars Susie Madrak 2011

  • But as of Thursday night, Stoneburg has been wiped from the map, burned to the ground during a hellstorm of fire sweeping across Texas and Oklahoma, fueled by winds but eventually creating its own wind, during this worst drought in recorded history.

    Requiem For A Tiny Town 2009

  • But as of Thursday night, Stoneburg has been wiped from the map, burned to the ground during a hellstorm of fire sweeping across Texas and Oklahoma, fueled by winds but eventually creating its own wind, during this worst drought in recorded history.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Lets see if she gets her head out of the the organizational hellstorm of her writers festival.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 2 Jun 2010

  • But the NPT, however threadbare, is one of our few forms of protection from a nuclear hellstorm, as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed calls it.

    Russ Wellen: World's Worst Nuclear Proliferator? Better Stay Away from Mirrors 2008

  • Nice point re: the hellstorm that Obama wants to unleash on Iraq by precipitously bailing.

    "Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime." Ann Althouse 2008

  • It was a response defined in terms of revenge and she welcomed this, the small intimate wish, however useless in a hellstorm.

    Falling Man Don DeLillo 2007

  • The kicker is this essay on behavior of some team members this past Saturday, yes, after the hellstorm had come to roost.

    Another Tragic Sexual Assault Story: Mixing Racism, Sexism, and Classism 2006

  • A hellstorm erupted in the cavern and Garrovick could feel an almost electrical sensation playing across his exposed skin as savage red energy beams sliced through the air.

    In the Name of Honor Dayton Ward 2002

  • Yet another thunderous roar washed over the courtyard, and Garrovick saw the metal doors disintegrate in a hellstorm of disruptor energy.

    In the Name of Honor Dayton Ward 2002

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