Word: craterous
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...asserts his freedom against his finiteness, and complicating with a fatality of evil a destiny which man senses to be divine,.is the tissue of history. It explains why man's history, even at its highest moments, is not a success story. It yawns, like a bottomless crater, across the broad and easy avenue of optimism. It would be intolerable without faith, without hope, without love...
History has recorded much greater catastrophes. Etna overflowed and 20,000 Sicilians died. An Indonesian crater blew its top, washed the sea over 36,000 Javanese and Sumatrans. Beneath Tokyo Bay, the earth shifted and two great cities were laid in ruins...
Oregon, not to be forgotten, boasts of Mount Hood with a mile-long chair lift, several rope tows, the Golden Rose tournament, and countless choice fast open slopes. Also in Oregon is Crater Lake, largely for natives and those who seek fresh, unpacked snow...
...written in 1863, when Delacroix died, and now published for the first time in English (Delacroix; Lear, Crown; $5). To the world, Bachelor Delacroix was the urbane, self-confident son of a prosperous lawyer-obviously gifted, and smooth as silk in company. To his friends, he was "like the crater of a volcano artistically hidden by bouquets of flowers." Wrote the author of Flowers of Evil...
...Tokyo raid with Doolittle, and was the man who invented the expendable 20? bombsight which Doolittle used instead of the secret (and invaluable) Norden. Afterwards, Greening flew 27 missions over Africa and Italy. After the 27th, in July 1943, he was shot down. He just missed parachuting into the crater of Vesuvius...