Word: vesuvius
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...Shadow. As a sign that the U.S. was now talking turkey, when that kind of talk was necessary, the giant aircraft carrier U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt and a heavily gunned, six-ship escort lay at anchor last week almost in the shadow of Italy's Mt. Vesuvius (see cut). They would move on, in reply to a Greek invitation, to the port of Piraeus four days after the Greek plebiscite Sept. 1 (see INTERNATIONAL...
...moments, spectators break into applause. One woman, after watching for a few minutes, broke into tears and hysteria. Hardened volcanologists, by their own account, have come away dazed and with knees shaking. Said Dr. William F. Foshag of the Smithsonian Institution: "It is, I believe, just as spectacular as Vesuvius ever was, and in its more violent phases it is better...
...about the professor until he jounced four miles downslope to tell Allied officials that the lava flow had slackened, evacuation could be halted. Then, anxious to get back to his instrument readings, he hurried upslope again, this time provided with a car. Behind him he left word that Vesuvius had not put on a better show since 1872, when showers of stone killed 20. (By week's end the present eruption had caused 26 deaths.) But the little geophysicist was also sure that the show was "effusive" and not "explosive"; he had been much more impressed...
...berserk. ... A moving, burning coalyard ... a torrid, gluey mass ... a gigantic, grey-and-orange glowworm. ... All the freight cars in the world had hauled cinders from all the steel mills ever built and dumped them. . . ." But a G.I. corporal from Indiana topped them all. Said he, as he watched Vesuvius in action: "Gosh, when I tell 'em about this in Muncie...
...Explosive" eruptions of Vesuvius: in 79 A.D., when Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae were buried; in 1631, when 18,000 were killed...