Word: vesuvius
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Thera, which erupted in 1500 B.C., blew the top off the Greek isle of that name and destroyed a civilization. Vesuvius, which came to life in A.D. 79, buried the town of Pompeii and its inhabitants under tons of lava and ash in hours. When Indonesia's Krakatoa exploded in 1883, it killed 35,000 people and released with a single blast the energy equivalent of 20,000 Hiroshima bombs...
...well as he does. Zaire's President Mobutu reminds Mailer of "a snake around a stick." Fight Promoter Don King's intellectual pretensions are pricked by simply quoting his pronunciation of the German philosopher "Knees Itch." George Plimpton's genteel competitiveness makes him "a smokeless Vesuvius...
...predominantly worked as a warm-up act for other groups. That will give American audiences an "opportunity to get to know me gradually," she says. But as the Doobie Brothers, Poco and Dave Mason all can attest, she frequently upstages the headliners with a vocal style as subtle as Vesuvius. Small wonder that, on occasion, lights and sound equipment have suffered mysterious malfunctions during Maggie...
...McCall's. Erstwhile Separated Husband No. 5 Richard Burton showed his own dedication to holding on by jetting into Los Angeles, draping a new $20,000 diamond necklace around Liz, and sweeping her off for a not altogether unexpected reconciliation in southern Italy-not too far from Vesuvius, in fact. Meanwhile, the London Daily Mirror reported that Los Angeles Secondhand Car Dealer Henry Weynberg said that Liz's seeming romance with him had never really been anything but a ruse: "Liz told me she was still madly in love with Burton and wanted to make him so jealous...
...been injured by the strange earth movements, which also occur in other volcanic areas like Japan and Hawaii. But some Italians fear that the shifts could culminate in a sudden eruption of Vesuvius, which has been quiet since 1944. The institute's scientists do not seem worried; any major eruption, they say, would be preceded by such preliminary warnings as tremors and heating of the crater. Indeed, they look upon Pozzuoli's problems as an opportunity to learn more about the earth's interior. Scientists from all over Italy are currently investigating the rising ground. Offshore...