Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Veracruz. The Red Army, which was supposed to win and was therefore given a slight edge in numbers and equipment, also outwitted the Blues. First Red move was to slam partly motorized infantry and cavalry into the only two eastward passes -over the massif formed by the famous volcano Popocatepetl and by Ixtacihuatl, "the Sleeping Woman"-through almost roadless, thoroughly inaccessible country...
...distance from the center, I saw buildings going up into the air. Although I have been on 31 raids, I have never seen anything to match the effect of this bomb." Another described what he saw when a new bomb dropped as "a huge heaving mass like a volcano in eruption, which rose and settled down into a great red glow fully half a mile in diameter...
...musicians whose work has never at any time dropped below the standard of hot jazz at its finest. So whatever Muggsy does, you can count on a good job. . . Count Basic tries the experiment of a fast blues in rhumba time. It's called Volcano, and features a swell muted trumpet chorus by Harry Edison. In the ensemble, the brass section takes top honors (OKEH). . . Lionel Hampton's new sextet includes a four-man rhythm section, a fiddle, and a clarinet. Band's VICTOR recording of Altitude is somewhat over-arranged, but the solos are worth hearing. The tune...
...title is a little misleading. As an intellectual volcano, the Mark Twain of this book is tired and nearing extinction. Some of the material was dictated circa 1898, but most of it after 1906. Twain had previously written his great books (the first half of Life on the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn). He had met all the right people, shaken all the right hands. He was utterly lonely. For most of his life Twain remained, as he still is, the last major U. S. literary voice...
...Million B.C." is a story of civilization in-the -raw, democracy-in-diapers. Among its many attractions are various over-sized lizards (alias ictheobrontosorsithiuses, er' somethin'), the super-colossal eruption of a gigantic volcano--in miniature, and a blonde named Carol Landis who kicks the stone-age gong around with nothing on but a smile and a bit of rhinoceros hide. Great fun for the kiddies between the ages...