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Word: erupts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Make Up Your Mind | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE Hot Rock: Hot Rock | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

Because he was loved for his humanitarian spirit by most newspapermen, be cause he was gracious and a subtle theorist, Heywood Broun's own personality had kept harmony in the Guild. But with Broun gone, there was more than a possibility that these subterranean dissensions might erupt into open revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Broun's Successor | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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