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...Seismic Hop. In Sioux City, Iowa, a ballroom manager banned jitterbugging, explained to outraged hepcats: "The restriction is not the result of vibrational damage to the building. It is due entirely to complaints of patrons who were subjected to bumps, kicks and collisions...
...Tsunami (pronounced (tsu-nah'-mee) is a Japanese term favored by seismologists over the popular but inaccurate "tidal wave." Literal translation: seismic sea-wave...
...candle to the wild Grenviles. "There was some quality in the race, some white undaunted spirit bred in their bones . . . surging through their blood." When roisterous Sir Richard, most dashing of all the Grenviles, met bitter-sweet Mistress Honor Harris over a dinner of roast swan and burgundy, their seismic passion rocked the country. "Oh wild betrothal, startling and swift . . .!" Gossips recounted how he had ". , . shamed me in a room in Plymouth . . . carried me [away] by force-[that] I ... lived as his mistress for three months-[but] Richard and I, in the gladness of our hearts, did nought but laugh...
...vast Tuscarora Deep, lying off the Pacific shore, sends out earthquake shocks which regularly rock the country. During the first 13 years of scientific recording, Japan averaged three and a half seismic shocks a day. The eastern shores of the main islands are slowly rising out of the Pacific; the western shores are slowly sinking into the Sea of Japan. There are 200 volcanoes, 50 of them still active. Storms constantly sweep the islands' 5,500 miles of shoreline...
Political tremors in Sinkiang disturb all the neighboring countries. Behind the current seismic shocks is a history that goes back to 1934, when China, then already started on her life & death struggle with Japan, could only stand by as the Soviet Union virtually set up a condominium over the vast province...