Word: volcanoe
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Visitors to Mexico City's National Bellas Artes gallery last week saw a mountain of modern Mexican painting. Except for the work of one artist, the mountain was close to being an extinct volcano. But inextinguishable firebrand David Alfaro Siqueiros had summoned up enough live steam and hot lava to make plenty of activity...
Clementine Churchill got an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from Oxford. She also got some sympathy for being Winston's wife. "He forgets there is a time for meals," observed Oxford's Public Orator, in Latin, "besides he is a perfect volcano, scattering cigar ashes all over the house (totas aedes Coronarum Coronarum favillis conspergi...
...year-old Navy Commander named Nelson Levings, 55-year-old ex-Supreme Court Clerk Thomas Quitman Ellis and 66-year-old ex-Congressman Ross A. Collins-were campaigning hard. But Bilbo paid no heed. Instead he howled a warning: "The white people of Mississippi are sitting on a volcano. . . . We are faced with a nationwide campaign to integrate the nigger with the social life of this country...
...rifts in the earth's subsurface, cracks running down as much as 100 miles or more. At those depths the temperature is high, the pressure strong and steady, and earth material a homogeneous magma of plastic rock. This pressure and material are the source and force of a volcano...
After an eruption has released the pressure, the top layer of the molten rock cools and hardens, sealing the volcano temporarily. The cap can contain the pressure for a time-depending on the peculiarities of the individual volcano-when it cracks open again with a rush of burning gas. Molten magma boils up, whipped to a froth by the gases. After the pressure has been relieved, the eruption subsides, the cap forms again and the cycle of eruption is complete...