Word: lava
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Undermined by water pouring down its slopes, the great mass had split, and a 40-ft. tide of thick goo suddenly rolled like molten lava toward a cluster of homes-and toward the red-brick Pantglas Junior and Infants School, where some 250 youngsters between seven and eleven were just sitting down to class. Across the street, Mrs. Pearl Crowe heard the rumble and looked out of her window. "I saw a black mass of moving waste pouring steadily into the school, and part of the school collapsed. I was paralyzed." Ten-year-old Dilys Pope...
Whenever a dull moment threatens, Hill rummages around in Michener's bottomless bag of epic tricks and comes up with windstorms, conflagrations, eruptions, street fights, breech births, shark attacks, luaus, lava-lavas and assorted shouts and muumuus-not to mention a large number of young wahines who appear in a state of nature and fill the giant screen with impressive outcroppings of what Hawaiians call papaia. What's more, the principals play with aplomb. Julie Andrews brings both sensuality and sensibility to a role that might easily have wallowed in sweetness and light. And Von Sydow is superb...
Trouble was, Samoans have rarely known hunger. And cricket, played Samoan style, is so much fun. Each village has a concrete pitch tucked in among the breadfruit trees; sides number a definitely non-U60 to 100 men, women and children clad in lava-lavas and urged on by dancing spectators, yelling, singing, and banging on kerosene drums at a well-hit ball. Badgered by papalagi (white) planters, Prime Minister Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II last week handed down the harshest decree of his six-year regime: cricket was banned (Wednesdays and Saturdays ex-cepted). To unstick...
Meteor Bombardment. The Russians confirmed that Luna 9 had found no dust on the moon. Instead, it hit a surface that consisted of hard, porous, volcanic soil formed from lava that had crumbled during billions of years of drastic temperature changes and bombardment by meteors and solar particles. Inhospitable as it is, such a surface could probably bear the weight of both heavy space vehicles and men. The major obstacle remaining before man can fly to the moon, concluded Soviet Academy of Sciences President Mstislav Keldysh, "is the problem of returning a cosmonaut to earth. I think it is easier...
Explosive Expansion. While they assessed the Russian information, Western scientists continued to interpret Luna 9's pictures. London University Astronomer Gilbert Fiedler called attention to lines in some of the pictures that might be edges of an ancient lava flow; he agreed with the Russians and many American scientists that the porous surface resulted from the explosive expansion of gases in the lava as it emerged onto the moon's airless surface...