Word: magma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Costa Rica, Mount Arenal had been quiet for nearly five centuries, its graceful cone plugged solidly with ages-old magma. Without warning one afternoon, Arenal blew a huge hole in its flank. Vaporized magma shot out at 1,472° F. and incandescent gas soared thousands of feet into the sky. Red-hot volcanic ash spread for miles across rich cattle-raising land, piling three feet deep in places. At least 78 people died, and further disaster struck searchers for the 100 or more still missing when a sudden sheet of flame engulfed a carload of rescuers, incinerating...
Prospecting for Steam. The largest and most accessible steam fields are located west of the Rockies, where volcanic activity has brought molten, lava-like rock known as magma close to the earth's surface. The 1,500° F. magma either releases its own trapped water as steam or, like a gigantic coffee percolator, vaporizes water that has seeped down into the earth...
...night last week, the giant awoke with a roar. Rock and mud, steam and magma belched from its 44-mile-deep core. Two villages vanished under a newly created lagoon nearly a mile long. Orange lava licked its way down the southern slopes of Taal, on top of roof-deep...
Died. Margaret Schulze Downey, 42, one of the nation's richest women, heiress to an estimated $150 million concentrated mainly in Newmont Mining Co. and Magma Copper Co. (founded by Grandfather William Boyce Thompson), a pretty brunette who briefly filled the gossip columns in the late '40s when her divorce from polo-playing Polish Prince Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen prompted him to shoot himself (he recovered), settled down to marry Morton Downey, radio's dulcet-toned troubadour of the '30s, and take an active director's role in minding her business; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Shakespeare did not write excerpts; he wrote plays. This is the start of the trouble with the program for two players, "Shakespeare Revisited," which has just joined the repertory at Stratford. In this magma, Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans are offering snippets from eighteen plays in the course of two hours, believe it or not, with condescending and insulting commentaries tossed in along...