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Word: visayan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grey Path. Twice in recent years, Camiguin's biggest active volcano, a many-cratered, 5,620-ft. monster named Hibok-Hibok (Visayan for hot and bubbling), had gotten angry-once in 1948, again in 1950 when 68 islanders were killed. Always Hibok-Hibok gave warning-two or three days of ominous huffing & puffing that gave Camiguenos time to retreat to safer reaches of the island, or even to take boats to Mindanao, seven miles to the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Tragedy at Hibok-Hibok | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

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