Word: pele
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will see three field events on the card: the hammer throw, at 2 o'clock, the discus at 2:30 and the javeling at 3 Saturday finds twelve other events listed: the high hurdles. 100-yard dash, mile run 440, low hurdles (120 yards), 220, SSO, two mile run, pele vault, high jump, shot put (16 pounds). and broad jump, Saturday's time schedule will be printed in the next week's SERVICE NEWS...
...Pele's lava floods sealed many of these graves, hid many relics of Hawaii's past. One royal feather cloak is left in the Bishop Museum at Honolulu; it is valued at a million dollars. It took 100 years to make such a cloak. Only feathers of a certain texture, color and length were used; one from under each wing of the o-o or mamo birds, one from the head of the male...
Dead and wrapped in lava long ago are Hawaii's ancient rulers. Dead too are some of the craters whence Pele flung her red-hot wrath. But in Kilauea a molten lake still lies, bubbling and puckering, rising and sinking, belching fumes, occasionally spilling over, dribbling Kilauea's flanks with fire. High above Kilauea, in old Mauna Loa, Pele still broods. Five years ago she hurled a 600-ft.-wide stream of lava down towards Hilo, principal city of the island of Hawaii. The lava was only three miles from the municipal water reservoir, within twelve miles...
Last week Pele stirred again, cracked the back of Mauna Loa. From a jagged rift on the mountain's slope shot a cascade of fire hundreds of feet high, 150 to 200 feet wide. Fortunately for the citizens of Hilo, the lava moved down toward Kau Desert, on the opposite side from the city...
After the first outburst, the volcano calmed down. But in Mauna Loa's cauldron, Pele's brew continued to boil and bubble...