Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Mount Pelee suddenly erupted on the Caribbean island of Martinique on May 8, 1902, a huge cloud of steam and volcanic dust killed 30,000 people, leaving a solitary prisoner in an underground dungeon as the only survivor. So when the long-dormant La Soufriere volcano on nearby Guadeloupe, a French territory, recently began rumbling and belching ash and gases, authorities ordered the immediate evacuation of more than 72,000 residents from towns and villages in the vicinity of the 4,812-ft. volcano. TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich flew to the island and ventured up to the crater...
...road up to the crater warn of toxic gases, projectiles and landslides. But over the years islanders have built their houses amid the rain forests on the mountain's flanks. As a retired clerical worker from Basse-Terre put it: "We did not fear it." When the volcano suddenly began spewing out a fine volcanic ash two weeks ago, officials decided it was time...
Clay chose instead to learn about the nature of his own nature by climbing the island's sacred 10,000-foot active volcano, watch the Pacific and the horizon and all the rest of the world curve away from atop the crater's rim, and then spend three days lost in the jungle searching for a path down before travelling on alone to Java. Dick and Jerry wrote novels. King discovered the hallucinogenic sunsets of Kuta Beach, and chose to spend most of the rest of the year on his own considering interior horizons and the curious capacities of memory...
...baroque speeches or lead Indian troops on a jungle campaign. His middleman position allows him to see Europe in the light of America, and America in the light of Europe. From the first page, when he looks out his window at the Arc d 'Triomphe and thinks of the volcano that overlooks his own capital, he continually sees affinities and contrasts between the continents...
Sharp Spikes. The sideshow barkers extolled their wares: "Miss Delilah, the girl who thrives on electricity and smiles when we push the switch on her very own electric chair," and "El Diablo, the king of fire, the human volcano," and "the human blockhead who loves to pound large sharp spikes and razor-tipped awls into his skull...