Word: volcanoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the conquest of the first territory within metropolitan Italy any more palatable to the war-sick, disorganized and frustrated Italian people. Mussolini waited 24 hours before officially announcing the capitulation, claiming that Italian airmen were having "great successes" and finally that Pantelleria had been turned into a "gigantic volcano." Italians did not miss the fact that the defeat came exactly three years and one day after Mussolini had led Italy into war against France and Britain. They remembered that he had boasted of "8,000,000 bayonets" ready to enforce the Fascist will, had led them to expect easy...
Pantelleria lies smack in the middle of the Sicilian Channel. It is about half the size of Malta and has a simmering volcano at its center. Its airfield is reported to be connected by tunnel with a small underground hangar. The harbor can be used as a submarine base. The whole island is strongly fortified...
...Western world. Stubborn as a burro, Cárdenas fought for Mexico's sovereign right to control its own subsoil treasures of ore and oil. He nearly broke Mexico doing it. When he bequeathed his errors and accomplishments to Avila Camacho, it was as if a volcano had subsided...
Simultaneously with Mather's lecture it was reported that a new volcano in Mexico had erupted, building up a cone 1000 feet high and driving inhabitants from a nearby town. The University is sending an expedition today to study the developments of the new volcano...
...Mexican volcano crupts--Harvard sends an expedition tomorrow to study it. Nearby town vacated. --Caption, Boston Globe, April...