Word: vesuvius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chain-smoking. In the Bankhead version, it is as strenuous as football. Miss Bankhead, between moments of dreamy ladylikeness during which she is probably catching her breath, coils, snarls, pounces, crunches her lines, turns throbbing baritone, and in general portrays what appears to be the love of Mt. Vesuvius for a mortal...
...Italy, a potent election force in the Christian-Democrat victory was: 1. An untimely eruption of Vesuvius...
Nobody was going to tap old Vesuvius. But, the U.S. State Department announced, Italy is going to eke out its meager power supply with volcanic energy. A $6,000,000 new power station will be built at Lar-derello (near Leghorn), using volcanic steam to generate about 75,000 kilowatts...
...hellholes, bubbling craters are really just safety valves, through which molten rock (magma) under the earth's skin can blow off steam from time to time. Volcanoes can be depended on to act up every so often; since 79 A.D., when Pompeii and Herculaneum were first buried, old Vesuvius has popped off about once every generation...
Vest-Pocket Vesuvius. A hot drink can easily be prepared in a snowstorm with a new pestle-like gadget called the Heatron Stirrer. It has a small cylinder on one end vhich contains a cartridge-like charge. Immersed in liquid, the stirrer gives off enough fumeless heat to bring a cup of water to the boiling point. Price, including six charges...