Word: craterous
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Pele, goddess of volcanoes, was on a house-hunting expedition when she hovered one day over the Hawaiian archipelago. There, according to legend, she found her fancy, settled in the fiery crater of Kilauea, near mighty Mauna...
Dead and wrapped in lava long ago are Hawaii's ancient rulers. Dead too are some of the craters whence Pele flung her red-hot wrath. But in Kilauea a molten lake still lies, bubbling and puckering, rising and sinking, belching fumes, occasionally spilling over, dribbling Kilauea's flanks with fire. High above Kilauea, in old Mauna Loa, Pele still broods. Five years ago she hurled a 600-ft.-wide stream of lava down towards Hilo, principal city of the island of Hawaii. The lava was only three miles from the municipal water reservoir, within twelve miles...
...year Manhattan newspapers suddenly sprouted sensational stories about a gigantic explosion which, it seemed, had not happened simply because of good luck. Had it happened, every building in New York City and every ship at its docks-not to mention its people-would have vanished without a trace. A crater would have been blown in the earth 100 miles across, and the sea would have poured into this vast pit from southern Connecticut halfway to Philadelphia. Cause of this might-have-been catastrophe: some well-intentioned physicists at Columbia University who were cracking uranium atoms with neutrons as contentedly...
...Stella Crater Kunz, remarried relict of New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater, who disappeared Aug. 6, 1930 and was declared legally dead last June, collected $20,561 from insurance policies on the life of her first husband, after: 1) the insurance companies conceded Judge Crater's death; 2) she posted a $23,500 bond to indemnify the companies if the judge should reappear...
...French military mission to Moscow, the hope of drawing Russia into the British-French guarantee of Poland's independence, the Franco-Soviet military alliance, the comfortable belief of Britons that because the mission was in Moscow, Russia would join France and Britain-all these went down as the crater opened. Had Hitler struck then he would have had the advantage, as from every capital except Berlin correspondents reported stunned surprise...