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Word: volcanoed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Packards are right, the Duce's balcony empire now rests uneasily on a volcano, which, like Vesuvius, may erupt at the next earth tremor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Il Duce's Volcano | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...Royal Arsenal, the Fiat truck and plane plants, the Caproni bomber factory, the Montecatini chemical works. Observers reported that a great pall of smoke lay over the city. At one point flames from a factory shot up 8,000 feet in the air like the plume of a live volcano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pax Romana | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

Visitors at Manhattan's Perls Galleries last week walked into two small rooms full of blood. Blood trickled over bare bosoms and in a pattern of veins up & down the stomach of a lady, whose only leg was a gigantic sausage that tapered off into a yawning volcano. Blood also oozed from the terrifying eye of an outsize male head. Blood was conspicuous in nearly all Painter Frederick Haucke's 20 nightmarish oils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Blood and Valves | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...they looked across the French border last week, the German people might have seen the crater of a new volcano. The U.S. had broadcast to the French, for whom we have "only feelings of greatest sympathy," a warning: "Listen: To all inhabitants of the occupied zone living within a two-kilometer radius [about a mile and a quarter] around the factories working for Germany, we recommend [that they] evacuate their homes. . . . The objectives which are liable to be attacked by our bombers are all factories making or repairing planes, tanks, vehicles, locomotives, firearms or chemical products." Two days later, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Houses on Vesuvius | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...Fortresses' three tons over 3,500 miles. Redesigning will give both planes room for an even greater load, which they already have the power to lift. After Lille, the shape of things to come was clear: eruption by day, as well as by night, of the volcano over Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Houses on Vesuvius | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

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