Word: volcanoed
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...more like a grimly real family: sullen and bruised by grievances and quarrelsome and full of parricidal silences. Presiding over the drama is the militaristic alldaddy, Steinbrenner as the Great Santini. He thunders, and acquires a certain force of nature. He has the qualities of a local Aztec volcano. He behaves as if he expected the Yankees to sacrifice virgins to appease...
...impulsively belligerent Hotspur and the comically self-indulgent Falstaff. Says Schonfeld: "If Ted Turner were a color, it would be red-the red of the surface of the sun." Adds another Turner aide, insisting that he not be named: "Do I like Ted? Do you like a volcano?" Turner's wife Jane says she is sure he must have been a hyperactive child: "He's hyperactive...
...Americans think the eruption of Mount St. Helens ended the U.S. volcano threat, they may be in for another shock. California's scenic Mammoth Lakes ski resort area, a few miles east of Yosemite National Park, has been jolted by a series of moderately strong earthquakes since 1978. At first seismologists of the U.S. Geological Survey thought the only risk was more quakes. Now they suspect that there may be a danger in the area of a volcanic eruption...
...about 3 miles. By last summer, they were occurring only 2 miles below the surface. Roy Bailey, coordinator of the U.S.G.S.'s volcanic hazards program, suggests that the quakes were caused by the slow upward movement of a tongue of magma-the hot molten rock that forms a volcano's lava. Still another sign: the outbreak of new steam vents, or fumaroles, in the seismically active region...
...declaring a "potential volcanic hazard"-the lowest of three possible levels of alert-the U.S.G.S. emphasizes that an eruption is not certain. But the volcano watchers note that there is geological precedent for a major blowup in the region. Mammoth Lakes lies inside a huge 10-mile by 18-mile caldera, or depression, called Long Valley. It was created 700,000 years ago by a volcanic eruption probably more powerful than any the earth has seen since...