Word: cauldron
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Bits of entrail from the Seabrook cauldron...
After the first outburst, the volcano calmed down. But in Mauna Loa's cauldron, Pele's brew continued to boil and bubble...
This dash of cool water on the boiling oil of Mexican politics made the political cauldron crackle and hiss. President Cárdenas' dominant Party of the Mexican Revolution sent its chief a long telegram urging him to stand by his guns, organized demonstrations in all of Mexico's 28 States. Vicente Lombardo Toledano's Confederation of Mexican Labor called on all its subsidiary labor organizations to make a fuss against "Yankee imperialism." Even supporters of the anti-Cárdenas Presidential candidate, General Juan Andreu Almazan, declared for publication they would not oppose whatever decision...
Highest high jinks: Charles Laughton having himself a wonderful time in the turret of Notre Dame, playing the bells with his feet, swinging apelike from the bell ropes, dropping building blocks and raining a vast cauldron of molten lead through gargoyles' mouths down on his fellow citizens in the square below...
...replied Playfair. The Prince instantly put his hand into the cauldron and ladled out some of the boiling lead without sustaining any injury. . . . It is a well-known scientific fact that the human hand, if perfectly cleansed, may be placed uninjured in lead boiling at white heat, the moisture of the skin protecting it under these conditions from any injury...