Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goodbye Parangaricutiro. A black, craggy pile, the moving lava constantly cracks chunks off its crust, exposing a gooey, glowing mass underneath (temperature: 1,994° F.). Its approach sets houses afire. Traveling about seven yards an hour, the glacier-like ooze has already spread more than seven miles and engulfed two villages-Paricutin and Parangaricutiro...
Beyond the battle lines, under the hard official crust, the Reich was heaving. From Berlin came persistent stories of peace riots. There were frequent killings in the streets. Travelers to Bern and Stockholm now began to report that Germans might revolt. The Russian radio broadcast easy lessons in disarming police patrols. Said Moscow: "A hefty stick will get you a revolver; to get a rifle and a few grenades with the help of a pistol is no work of art." Himmler announced appointment of a new police chief for Berlin...
First Frost. In Jersey City, Ignatz C. Banikonis, tipsy and overheated, lay down for a short nap, melted his way through the crust on a pool of tar, woke in the morning frozen in the tar except for part of his head and right side...
Even two miles back from the carpet U.S. troops were rocked by concussion. There were U.S. casualties-many of them-from U.S. bombs that fell short of the targets. But the bombardment broke the crust of the enemy's defenses...
...himself, at least, that he's doing the best he can. The point is that he exercises power. . . . His cronies are the bankers, the manufacturers, the utility operators, the department-store tycoons. . . . The ideas he absorbs and the attitudes he reflects are those of the well-heeled upper crust...