Word: dantean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power. In mid-September the volcano rumbled and then erupted. For several days, Kilauea tossed lava bombs, rock and ashes into the air. Then, with fire spouting up to 350 ft. above the crater rim, the volcano spewed out a fountain of fluid, superhot lava that glowed like a Dantean vision of hell...
...into this ferment--this crucible of trials--this Dantean inferno of misdeeds that Martin King, Jr. came, labored and died. And it is fitting that we celebrate the birth of our fallen leader. I make bold to say that Martin Luther King, Jr. was the one genuine prophet developed by the Western World and the United States of America. The fact that he was Black--elevates and illuminates this occasion...
FROM The Bronx, in perennial imitation of the pioneers, a salesman or engineer heads west in his camper-past the northern borders of Harlem, across the Hudson, through the almost Dantean landscape beside the New Jersey Turnpike, where his family rolls up the windows against the stench of chemical plants. Down the road, as the Howard Johnson's tick by, all breathe easier. By mid-Pennsylvania, past the Amish country and into the Allegheny foothills, the father is almost counting cows with his children. Local radio stations dissolve in static every 50 miles; insects detonate against the windshield...
...level deserts where temperatures rise to a scorching 134°F. in the shade. Its only inhabitants are fierce nomads, one of whose reputed customs is to carve parts from battle victims and bear them home as trophies for their women. Yet the most awesome aspect of this Dantean terrain is the inferno that may be hidden beneath it. After three recent expeditions to the Afar triangle, a Belgian volcanologist named Haroun Tazieff concludes that subterranean forces may slowly transform the area into a section of a large new ocean...