Word: cauldron
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...addition to the bombings, there were other ominous rumblings. Israeli jets flying routine reconnaissance missions over Beirut and southern Lebanon were fired upon by the P.L.O., and Israeli military officials charged that the Palestinians were moving new military equipment into the south in violation of the ceasefire. The cauldron of Lebanon seemed set to begin boiling yet again...
Perhaps most hazardous of all, the Israeli action managed to blend two of the world's most explosive issues: the question of nuclear proliferation in the Third World and the perpetual cauldron of Middle East politics. After a day of silence following the raid, Iraq declared that its reaction would be "bigger and better nuclear reactors." Begin made clear that Israel was ready to repeat its attack any time. Considering what might lie ahead, Sigvard Eklund, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which inspects the nuclear facilities of signatories to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, declared...
...chemical dump have shown traces of contamination. At the waste heap, state analysts have found some 6 million Ibs. of arsenic, as well as large quantities of other dangerous chemicals. Says Larry Crane, director of the Iowa department of environmental quality: "It's an organic chemists' cauldron...
According to their scenario, some of the molten rock from the subterranean cauldron of magma under the mountain will slowly be forced upward, like toothpaste being squeezed out of a tube. It will push through the vents in the "plug" of debris within the volcano's throat and emerge as lava. When it is finally exposed to the air, the lava will harden rapidly; it will probably not have enough volume or velocity to overflow the volcano's rim. Instead, as it solidifies, it will likely form a dome or cap over the vents. Eventually the dome should...
...both being married people, determined on running away...they were caught and brought back. The Amir, in ordering their punishment, said that, as the man was so fond of the woman, he should have her as completely as was possible. So the woman was thrown alive into a huge cauldron of boiling water, and boiled down to soup, and a basin of this soup was given to the man, who was forced to drink it, and after drinking it he was hanged. In this case the Amir's object was to punish, not only in this life...