He said: "We could hear them trying to smash the doors and buildings down below," after British security officials staged an emergency evacuation of all the embassy staff.

Massive tidal waves swept over Crete, and other parts of the Mediterranean, smashing buildings and drowning many thousands of people.

In other words, "The Corporation" is a monster movie, and nobody, faced with so much alarming testimony, would want to defend Godzilla as he smashes buildings and tramples streetcars.

He claimed the Israeli army systematically smashed the irrigation system, buildings and well-boring machinery, and most of the land quickly reverted to desert.

Stooping low, Dobbs carried Jaime back through smoke-filled, smashed open buildings, emerging on the spaceport tarmac not far from die bay where the Spartacus was loading.

Harry Wickham, a hotel worker in Gizo, told New Zealand Television that a torrent of water 10 feet high poured through the town, smashing buildings along the waterfront.

The monster marches through the city, smashing cars, trains, and buildings.

Airstrikes like this have been smashing buildings all over southern Lebanon.

But today, he said, as NATO bombs and missiles smash civilian and official buildings in downtown Belgrade, "we do not have this feeling - quite the reverse."

Every floating building had smashed lower buildings when it fell, so that all was shattered brick and glass and concrete, torn steel, twisted ramps and elevator towers still reaching into the air.