Word: crater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guadeloupe, a French territory, recently began rumbling and belching ash and gases, authorities ordered the immediate evacuation of more than 72,000 residents from towns and villages in the vicinity of the 4,812-ft. volcano. TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich flew to the island and ventured up to the crater. His report...
...Viking scientists. "Fantastic!" There before them in a spectacular 300° panoramic view was a rock-strewn-and apparently lifeless-plain reminiscent of the deserts of Arizona and northern Mexico. Clearly visible were bright patches of sand and dunes, some low ridges, what seemed to be an eroded crater and a landscape littered with rocks. Some of the more distinctively shaped rocks were promptly given names like "Midas muffler" and "Dutch shoe" by scientists. On the horizon, about two miles away, was a ridge that could be the rim of a large impact crater from which many of the rocks...
...suburban residence for Dublin last week, in a blue Jaguar followed by two Irish police cars. As the Jaguar crossed a sewer 150 yds. from the house, two men lurking in nearby bushes detonated by remote control about 500 Ibs. of explosives hidden inside. The blast gouged a crater 10 ft. deep, hurled the Jaguar into the air and sent stones flying for several hundred yards. The ambassador and a secretary, Judith Cook, 25, were killed. Gravely injured were the chauffeur and Brian Cubbon, British Permanent Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who had come from Belfast to confer...
Clay chose instead to learn about the nature of his own nature by climbing the island's sacred 10,000-foot active volcano, watch the Pacific and the horizon and all the rest of the world curve away from atop the crater's rim, and then spend three days lost in the jungle searching for a path down before travelling on alone to Java. Dick and Jerry wrote novels. King discovered the hallucinogenic sunsets of Kuta Beach, and chose to spend most of the rest of the year on his own considering interior horizons and the curious capacities of memory...
...medieval theologian's idea of hell, may possess a recently active volcano. It shows a mountain measuring 279 miles by 186 miles at its base; at its summit is a 90-yd. depression that some believe may have been made by a meteor but Malin speculates is the crater of a volcano...