Word: lavas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game lived there; no food could be found in the cheat grass and grotesque lava beds. In places the river gorge cut so deep that voyagers could not get down to the water. At times Indians pounced; in 1862 they ambushed a caravan of 25 Iowa families, killing nine settlers and scalping...
...Cover) By the evening of Thursday, Feb. 25, 1954, Senator Joe McCarthy, after a fortnight of mounting frenzy, had built the smallest of molehills into one of the most devastating political volcanoes that ever poured the lava of conflict and the ash of dismay over Washington. Joe, the stoker, was still disorganized but quick-witted, charging in and out of his Senate office, snatching up telephones, rushing to the Senate floor to answer quorum calls, dictating statements to reporters. As he dashed about, his office staff lost track, believed a rumor that he had emplaned for New York. Then...
Italy, then found new techniques of her own. Besides the traditional Italian mosaic glass, she uses lava rock, iridescent furnace slag, crystal, quartz, mica and pyrites to produce extraordinarily various effects. Her mosaic above shows the moment when Christ met his mother on the Way of the Cross. As Artist Jenkins puts it, the "Cross becomes a sword of Truth between them. In the look between them, Mary realizes that He must go before...
...Message of the Lord's Prayer, The Invisible Encounter). Tractors of any type fascinate him and he currently has three ("they are like pets"). But one hobby takes him far from home. He is wild about volcanoes and will fly thousands of miles to watch one fume and throw lava into the air. When Mexico's famed Paricutin was erupting, Sikorsky traveled twice to the craterside to admire the effect...
...years P. & G. products had gone their separate ways, taking care not to step on one another's toes. But in the late '20s, the company had brought out Ivory Flakes, started production of granulated soap, bought up Oxydol, Lava, Duz. McElroy had a new idea for selling them: Why not have a free-for-all, with no holds barred? "At first," says he, "some of the more conservative members of the company cringed at the idea of having a punch taken at ourselves by ourselves." But eventually McElroy won his point, persuaded his elders that...