Word: crusting
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...high, curves downward even more swiftly toward the danger area. For a few seconds it glows like a meteor, trailing a bright streak of flame. Then out of the sea rises a dome of fire 20 miles across. The sea boils as if a volcano had poked through the crust of the earth, and a cloud of radioactive death drifts downwind. An earth wave jangles seismographs in San Francisco, St. Louis, New York, Madrid...
...Such Crust...
ROBERT L. FINCH President and Top Crust Apple Pie Testers Association Columbus, Ohio
...earth's climate is affected by interstellar dust and gas that sometimes shut off much of the sun's light. The Ice Ages were caused partly by such shadowing, partly by the slipping of the earth's crust, which shifted now-tropical sections of the earth's surface into the polar regions...
They showed "lunatics" lying half-naked in filthy pens, or fighting like starved wolverines when a heartless jailer tossed them a moldy crust. Some inmates were in chains; some were being beaten. More astonishing than the play were the players : housewives and secretaries suffering from involutional melancholia or agitated schizophrenia, mechanics or plumbers in manic-depressive states. Among them, confined by court order, were conmen, kleptomaniacs, counterfeiters, and even some who had committed homicide...