Word: volcanoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Target: a Peninsula. As the General's ships took on the cargo of invasion, the General's planes droned over the sea. For a fortnight they had pounded the southwest end of the long (300 miles), thin (60 miles at the widest), scimitar-shaped, jungle-covered, volcano-studded island that was once a German colony, then an Australian mandate until captured by the Japs...
Senator Joseph F. Guffey, most vociferous of the Senate's tiny handful of New Dealers, set off a political volcano last week. The volcano might be just the Democratic Party, or it might be the nation. The oratorical lava which seethed out revealed a shocking depth of Senate bitterness against President Roosevelt and his inner circle-at the least. At its worst, it widened a split between Congress and the President which may be symptomatic of national disunity...
...used the volcano . . . today as a grandstand seat to watch the war spread out far below us. ... It was a good lesson in humility, for who could hang on to the edge of the crater peering fearfully into the seething, glowing mass that every few seconds exploded molten lava into the air, and not think what puny forces 4,000-pound blockbusters unleash as compared to this monstrosity of nature...
...found bubbles in the lava underfoot that steamed and hissed like a witch's cauldron. Our own guide said nothing would induce him to go any farther, but another came along with an English officer who said he would take us on. First he wanted to make a volcano of his own. Taking an iron rod, he pierced the hot shell of a cauldron, showing us molten red inside with fiery stalactites dripping from the top. Here was Dante's Inferno in miniature. There was some thing demoniacal about it. Yet we were soon to see that magnified...
...careful way behind stone walls up the limestone and pumice heights of the Sorrentine peninsula. From the ridge the patches of chestnut forest tumbled into the brown Campania plain. The General looked in the direction of the ashen ruins of Pompeii, the lava-scarred cone of Vesuvius. Beyond the volcano rose a huge shroud of smoke over the port of Naples. In that city of 900,000, rising in tourist times like a white amphitheater from the blue sea, the Germans were dynamiting and burning. It was clear proof that the Wehrmacht had lost the Battle of Salerno...