Word: vesuviuses
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...Packards are right, the Duce's balcony empire now rests uneasily on a volcano, which, like Vesuvius, may erupt at the next earth tremor...
...philosophic advice: the German spirit must be trained to face the breakup of all that was formerly called life. The German people's whole existence as town dwellers is now in suspense. Nietzsche's theme of living dangerously must be accepted. Nietzsche said: "Build your houses on Vesuvius...
...Vesuvius. Nazi planes in thick swarms rose to meet them. The greatest daylight air offensive thus far over the Continent was met by one of the greatest defensive waves of fighters. On Sept. 15, 1940, when some 400 Nazi planes attacked Britain, R.A.F. fighters knocked down 185 and turned a tide. This time there was another tide-turning...
...inevitably the chief victims have been the dwellers on Vesuvius. By the end of August 1,000,000 Germans were said to be homeless, a total of five and a half square miles of German cities wiped off the map. The same Swiss correspondent wrote in the Zurich Volksrecht...
...bomber. Correspondent Floyd exploded over a new headline: VOLCANIC BLAST TERRIFIES JAPAN. It was about an eruption of Mt. Asama. As an ex-staffman on Tokyo's then-U.S.-owned Japan Advertiser, he knew Mt. Asama was in a sparsely settled region and "could do a double-Vesuvius" without exciting the Japs...