Word: tuscarora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile-by-mile description of the road over the Tuscarora Mountains to Chambersburg and the British military base at Carlisle; a dozen scenes of frontier crowds praying and dancing and singing; a spate of Irish and Scotch dialects; a history of the settlements, Indian wars and politics of western Pennsylvania; a long, rapturous recipe for duck soup...
Vast geologic forces stir in the Tuscarora Deep, a submarine trench facing Japan. Last week a section of the ocean floor gave way, creating a violent tremor. Ten-foot seismic waves of water thundered toward the main home island of Honshu, raced up the funnel neck of Kii Strait, dealt sleeping villages across 60,000 square miles six shattering blows in three hours. Tokyo newspapers called it the worst disaster since the great earthquake of September 1923, which killed 143,000. Said famed Fordham Seismologist Father Joseph J. Lynch: "A ripsnorter...
...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...