Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home. They chose the island of Bali, and since their exalted rank demanded a high dwelling place, they created a chain of mountains. On the most sacred eastern end of the island, the gods erected the highest of Bali's mountains, the 10,308-foot volcano of Gunung Agung, regarded by the Balinese as "The Navel of the World." Halfway up the slope of Agung, the pious Balinese built the huge mother temple of Besakih, and every hundred years they have held a solemn rite there to rid the island of ghosts. Last week, in the midst...
...lethal black cloud of searing, 230° ash that roasted hundreds where they knelt. Rivers of grey-black lava boiled over Agung's southern lip and flowed in fiery rivulets down stream beds, raising clouds of steam; heavy rains, possibly caused by the heat of the volcano, mixed with the sulphurous ash to form an acid that killed plant life for five miles around...
BEKASIH, Ball, March 22--A vast moonscape of death stretches around this northeast Ball village in the shadow of Agung Volcano, whose fury has killed more than 1,200 people since Sunday...
...Hawaiian Ocean View Estates was advertised as a 10,000-acre development on a "gentle slope" near both ocean and golf courses. What the developers did not say was that much of the slope was lava from Mauna Loa volcano, the beach was 25 miles off and the golf course 51 miles...
...love the Revolution like a volcano in eruption," he exults. "I love the volcano, because it's a volcano, the Revolution because it's the Revolution! What do I care about the stones left above or below after the cataclysm?" But he fails to translate this poetry into practice. At the first sign of shooting, he flees...