Word: crater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight weeks ago that Oregon's famed Crater Lake began its unlakelike burps. Two days later, a second dust-bubble broke from the surface. The third, two weeks later, formed a cloud 300 ft. wide. Tourists began to flock to the lake to watch. After the road was closed for the winter, in late October, the lake uttered yet one more eructation...
Lake of Jade. Seen from the air, the crater itself seems a lake of green jade shaped like a splashy star and set in a sere disc of burnt vegetation half a mile wide. From close up the "lake" is a glistening incrustation of blue-green glass 2,400 ft. in diameter, formed when the molten soil solidified in air. The glass takes strange shapes-lopsided marbles, knobbly sheets a quarter-inch thick, broken, thin-walled bubbles, green, wormlike forms...
...glass lake's center, directly beneath the bomb's exploding point, is a crater of bare earth about 15 ft. deep and 300 ft. across. Scientists told newsmen the earth here was pushed downward ten feet by the explosion's force. Stumps of the four reinforced-concrete tower pillars that supported the bomb still stand in the crater, flaked and twisted. The rest of the tower has vanished into vapor...
...newsmen at Trinity last week could not leave their cars at the crater's rim without first donning canvas overshoes to protect themselves against burns from radioactive material which might lodge in their shoes. Scientists with radiometers like long-lensed cameras found several "hot spots" near the inner crater's edge, warned others to stay away. Reporters who enthusiastically pocketed souvenir bits of crater glass had second thoughts when someone recalled the effects of radiation on fertility. The radiometers proved that some of the souvenirs were actually still dangerous...
This bomb was more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima; in ways that could not be revealed, it was also, said Army & Navy officers, so much of an improvement that the first bomb was obsolete. It exploded on or near the ground, blasted a ghastly crater. It destroyed only one square mile of the Kyushu seaport, but spokesmen said that it had been more devastating than the first...