Word: lavas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey home. Later, when Ava caught Frankie's act at a Jersey nightclub, the New York Journal-American was pleased to report: "As their glances locked, thunder boomed and lightning flashed . . . The Voice unleashed a torrent of sound at the sultry Ava. Emotion poured from him like molten lava...
...First Magistrate who has the people's support because he is keeping his promise to regenerate Mexico and make an end of the filthy sewer of mud that has smothered the national conscience under a certain prosperity these past six years, and has transformed a pedregal [old lava field] into a spectacular oasis for the profit of investors...
Politics erupted the length of Italy last week, with a lava flow of candidates, party slogans and oratory. For all its ancient past, Italy has been a united nation for barely a century, and a republic for only seven years. This year's national election, the first since 1948, brought out 8,500 candidates for 590 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 237 seats in the Senate...
...boulder-strewn lava plain outside Mexico City, 10,000 workmen, artists and engineers labored last week to finish Mexico's biggest single construction job since the building of the Halls of Montezuma (circa 1500). For the 401-year-old University of Mexico, North America's oldest university,* they were creating a handsome, ultramodern University City, spectacularly expressive of the new, post-revolutionary Mexico. Scheduled for occupancy early next year, the dazzling, $50 million University City is the most up-to-date college campus anywhere...
When they got back to San Diego, their lava samples were analyzed at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They seem to be "acidic," which would prove, according to Scripps Man Richards, that the volcano is a continental type in spite of its position well out from the continental shelf. It may get its lava from a deep-down magma reservoir like those which have fed volcanoes on the Mexican mainland...