Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heading the group of stories is Cecil Schneer's "Two Episodes," a pair of sharply drawn sketches of individuals in crisis. The first, dealing with the bombing of an Hawaiian volcano, has a more unique interest than its commoner companion piece, but both display mature style and original talent of which the reader may hope to see more. Norman Mailer's "Maybe Next Year" is in the nature of an experiment in objective subjectivity. Told through the mouth of a small child, this tale of a split home remains brutally objective and its technique is never really in keeping with...
...great military volcano of the Mediterranean got ready to erupt. From Port Said to Gibraltar, steam burst from a hundred vents, and the pent-up force of military, naval and air might rumbled like subterranean lava flows...
...commander Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, dashing, eupeptic hero of the Graf Spec fight, maintained its equivocal control-unable to venture too far for fear of Axis air attack but still superior to any opposition the Italian Navy offered. Some day, any day, the first fissure of the volcano might burst and the molten lava begin to flow...
Late last month Mauna Loa grumbled, heaved. The volcano erupted suddenly in great fiery fountains of lava. They spurted 600 ft. in the air, lighting the clouds above blacked-out Hawaii, rolled in a torrent of molten rock down the slopes to the city and harbor of Hilo 30 miles away...
...Leet stated, Asama, Japan's most treacherous volcano, erupted violently with disastrous effects, and it has been constantly active ever since. Consequently there is no reason to believe, much as we would like to, that this eruption is a prelude to a period of menacing volcanic activity in the enemy's camp, the professor concluded...