Word: craters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public forms fascinated Marsh. For sardonic effect he sometimes reproduced in his paintings Manhattan's steady flow of tabloid headlines (DOES THE SEX URGE EXPLAIN JUDGE CRATER'S STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE?). But above the litter and trash of the streets, Marsh saw in the full-blown women the galvanizing, poetic image of the city. He painted them as triumphant nudes, only incidentally clothed, proud symbols with painted, empty faces...
...most successful is The Crater (see cut), dominated by lava-black swirls in which prehistoric reptiles, ghostly riders and a whole flotsam of humanity are discovered like fossil imprints in a violently sheared rock...
...quarter-century ago this week, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph F. Crater finished his dinner in Billy Haas's Manhattan restaurant, hailed a cab and rode off into the darkness. Although his disappearance was soon ranked as one of the most mysterious in the annals of U.S. missing persons,* Crater's wife Stella, 53, emerged only last week from her own self-chosen limbo (as a Brooklyn secretary) for her first press conference. Remarried in 1938 (after Crater was declared legally dead), Stella Crater Kunz had good reason to say: "The investigation into his disappearance was bungled...
...State tornado of 1925, killed 689 people in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. A single storm front can create several tornadoes, each whirling furiously for a few fearsome miles. Sometimes the roaring black vortex stays harmlessly in the sky; when it dips to earth, the impact can dig a crater...
Mihara's suicide score has fallen since the war, but the volcano may become famed as the first whose eruptions can be predicted scientifically. Five years ago. Assistant Professor Tsuneji Rikitake of Tokyo University's Earthquake Research Institute started prowling around the warm rocks on its top crater, carrying apparatus to measure earth magnetism. Whenever he approached the hot crater, the strength of the magnetic field de creased appreciably...