Word: erupted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twenty-four hours after the last evacuee struggled past the roadblock into the safety zone, the island was shaken by an earthquake that measured 4 points on the Richter scale. There were reports that the volcano might erupt at any moment with the force of a 350-kiloton nuclear explosion. The next day Professor Robert Brousse, 47, a burly volcanologist from the University of Paris, flew in an Alouette III helicopter over the volcano to see if it had begun to erupt. "We were over the sea when suddenly the cloud into which we were about to fly turned...
...King at a white-tie dinner: "I am confident that your leadership will prove more than equal to the tasks ahead." All told, the King impressed his listeners as a young man who is trying hard to get a handle on the serious problems that confront Spain before they erupt...
...Social issues such as consumerism, pollution and abortion generate little interest, and international affairs do not claim much attention from district voters. Black-white relations have been a source of tension in the past; the racial issue lies just below the surface now, an uneasily quiet volcano which could erupt this summer when the District Court makes a decision on busing...
...scientists studying the mountain concede that their activity and reports have proved costly to Concrete. But the Forest Service insists that placing threatened areas off limits makes eminent sense. Mount Baker does not have to awaken fully and erupt in order to be deadly. All the restless giant need do to cause a disaster is to shrug off its snowy and earthen coverings...
...sounds of Haydn's 82nd Symphony. Isn't that Buster Keaton? There's Joe Namath and a courtful of jokers, heroes and heroines all. Linked by sheer velocity, the steps merge in combinations that are silly and daring. Brises follow splat falls; dreamy waltzes erupt in staccato spasms of movement. With deadpan wit, 16 girls perform precise glisses while their heads wobble like windup dolls. All at once 30 dancers are onstage, twisting, wiggling, milling about in all directions. It is a Hollywood climax in the tradition of Cecil B. DeMille, but the heart and humor...