Word: lavas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranch house, Mrs. John Carroll thought it was just an unusually bright Hawaiian moon, pulled the shades and went back to bed. Soon she awoke again, to the sound of a dull, menacing rumble. She fled in her nightdress, just before the stream of red-orange lava hit her house...
...miles away. Not from the crater, where it usually erupts, but out of the southwest flank of the mountain melted rock burst and shot 300 ft. up; steam shot higher to 20,000 ft., striking a passing plane. Through two other vents in the slope, streams of glowing lava oozed out, surged 25 miles...
...fleet of 33 fire trucks converged, sirens moaning, on the burning wrecks. By the time they got there, flame was shooting 300 feet into the air and heat was melting overhead trolley wires, and turning the asphalt paving to lava. Five nearby houses and buildings were on fire. There was nothing to do but pump in water and chemicals, clear the buildings-and wait...
Overcome by black fumes at the rim of the volcano, she spends the night on a lava bed and awakens (without a smudge on her face) to a morning scene of serene grandeur. Then, with no dramatic preparation but her awed look and a line of dialogue ("What mystery! What beauty!"), an offscreen narrator baldly announces that she has found the religious strength to return to her husband...