Word: coalyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tell 'Em." War-hardened U.S. and British correspondents seemed more impressed than Dr. Imbo. No man-made scene of battle and destruction had shaken them so verbally. They wrote: ". . . incredibly awesome. . . . The great lambent tongue on the mountainside . . . some giant blast furnace suddenly gone berserk. ... A moving, burning coalyard ... a torrid, gluey mass ... a gigantic, grey-and-orange glowworm. ... All the freight cars in the world had hauled cinders from all the steel mills ever built and dumped them. . . ." But a G.I. corporal from Indiana topped them all. Said he, as he watched Vesuvius in action: "Gosh, when...
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