Word: eruptively
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...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...
...were not annulled, Mackenzie King would face what the Ottawa Journal described as "eruptions in this country" everywhere but in Quebec. If it were annulled, Quebec might erupt. Wee Willie King had to make up his mind...
...west side were prime targets, the sea power that keeps Italy corked into the Mediterranean. The Italians claimed they hit and fired some of the ships. Watchers in Algeciras across the bay and in Tangier across the Strait could not tell, but they could see and hear the Rock erupt an inferno of anti-aircraft fire, and they saw no planes come down. Several blazes lit the scene after the heaviest raid and Spanish sources said hits had been made on docks, barracks, the radio transmitter, water tanks, a gun emplacement on Europa Point...