Word: igneous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...islands that had been a naturalists' paradise became in war a sunset home for soldiers & sailors. For the G.I., Seymour (smallest of the 16 islands of consequence, 990 miles southwest of the Panama Canal) was The Rock-the never-never land of igneous boulders and shifting red dust, the U.S. Army's beachhead on the moon...
...night four steatopygous corvettes waddled along off the coast of Newfoundland, ostensibly bound for Britain. But at dawn they hove to off the salmon-pink igneous rockland of St. Pierre & Miquelon, last island remnants of the once-great French Empire in North America...
...Travel Lecturer Burton Holmes: "Nature, I imagine, did not in igneous wantonness upheave the mountains of southern Germany, but reared them thoughtfully for Mr. Holmes within the range of his lenses...