Word: erupted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the reason, violence did erupt on the morning of Sept. 9 at about 8:30, when a group of inmates refused to line up at the rap of guards' clubs for a work detail. Suddenly the guards, armed only with their clubs, were fighting with inmates?and were completely outnumbered. At the time well under 100 guards were on duty in the 55-acre compound to supervise the 2,250 prisoners. Moving swiftly, the convicts rushed through three of the quadrangular cell blocks (see cut) and set fires in six buildings. The chapel, prison school and machine shop were...
...modern Mafia was reorganized in the 1930s, and the Commission was established after bloody battles to curb the power of a single leader. Gambino's assertion of leadership?quite apart from the Colombo family's need for revenge?makes it possible that a full-scale battle may erupt. Beyond doubt, the attempt to murder Joe Colombo has profoundly affected the Cosa Nostra. Gallo blocked off the street where he lives the night after the attack, and that same night, only twelve hours after Jerome Johnson fired three bullets into Colombo, business in a small Italian restaurant outside New York City...
Today, the earth is still changing-continents move, now mountains are being made, volcanoes erupt periodically-all forming new rock. For the last three billion years (the age of the youngest lunar rock) the only apparent changes on the moon have been caused by meteorites. Constant impacting by meteorites has broken up the rock to form dust, compacted the dust to form rocks called breccia, and melted the rock sand dust to form glasses...
...season for that glum annual speculation: Will the nation's cities erupt in racial violence? As temperatures climb and hundreds of thousands of youths find themselves jobless in the ghetto streets, this year the tinder is drier than it has been since the fiery spring of 1968. While the urban ghettos have seemed quiet for a long time, it was plain all along that there was discouragement, if not despair, beneath the surface, and that violent anger could again erupt if conditions failed to improve...
...Mark and two Harvard colleagues?Psychiatrist Frank Ervin and Surgeon William Sweet?are fighting aggression by using surgery to destroy the damaged brain cells that sometimes cause violence in people with specific brain disease. Typical of their patients is a gifted epileptic engineer named Thomas, who used to erupt in rages so frenzied that he would hurl his children or his wife across the room. First, Mark and Ervin sent electric current into different parts of Thomas' brain; when the current sparked his rage, the doctors knew they had found the offending cells. Surgeons Mark and Sweet then destroyed them...