Word: eruptive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exciting news that spreads headlines across the week's newspapers. It goes much further than that -for we have also promised that after you have, read your copy of TIME you will be thoroughly and understandingly well-informed about the policies and decisions and changing conditions that may erupt into headlines next week or next month...
...keep ahead of the news Chapin and his associates have built up a "bank" chock full of maps they have drawn to illustrate events that might erupt into the headlines-maps they could fill in and finish at a few minutes' notice. For example, three years ago they prepared a basic map of the invasion of Britain, which needs only the direction arrows and the names of the beachhead battlefields to be ready for the plate-maker. I hope (pretty confidently) that we shall never have a chance to use this...
...Packards are right, the Duce's balcony empire now rests uneasily on a volcano, which, like Vesuvius, may erupt at the next earth tremor...
Practical Importance. The discovery that mice erupt in cycles has important practical applications. In 1935 a U.S. zoologist was able to warn orchardists 18 months in advance of the worst mice outbreak New York State ever suffered, helped save thousands of fruit trees...
...great military volcano of the Mediterranean got ready to erupt. From Port Said to Gibraltar, steam burst from a hundred vents, and the pent-up force of military, naval and air might rumbled like subterranean lava flows...