Word: aso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of records on Japan's biggest active volcano, Mount Aso, there are accounts of more than 3,000 eruptions, of one farmer injured by falling stones (in 1485), but not one death. On the floor of the crater-15 miles long and ten miles wide-live 60,000 people...
...last week, Aso's crater swarmed with sightseeing students and city dwellers on holiday. In the crowd were 39-year-old Police Chief Kunihiro Shikura and his three-year-old son, Chitose...
Suddenly, with a roar, Aso exploded. Huge, white-hot boulders and great clouds of glowing ash erupted from the cone. Shikura and son, who had been eating lunch on the outer edge of the big crater, tried to run down the slope. So did some of the panicked schoolchildren. They should have run the other way. Stones and ash cleared the farmland on the crater floor, spattered on the rim and outer slope...
...appear on the ballot, they must file formal acceptance at the Council office in Phillips Brooks House by 5 p.m. Friday, April 28. The elections for House representatives will be on the day before. Men who are aso nominateld for House representative may thus run from the Class if they fail to win in their House...