Word: diablo
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...that get their brilliance from their enormous speed. Only a few are big enough to reach the earth's surface before they evaporate. Once in a great while, a really big meteor smacks the earth with a vast concussion, digging an "explosion crater" like the one near Canyon Diablo, Ariz. Such craters are rare. Unless the meteor hits in an arid region, its dent is smoothed down quickly (in terms of geological time) by erosion and other natural forces...
Declension. In Chicago, the Brookfield Zoo's giant anaconda, "El Diablo," gave birth to 21 baby anacondas, was hastily renamed "La Diabla...
Common folk in Buenos Aires could hardly believe their ears: Juan Domingo Perón had told a congressional caucus that Argentina would fight beside the U.S. if there was another war. Furthermore, he was saying that U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith was a pretty fine fellow. Qué Diablo! Had the Strong Man fallen in love with the Vanquish Well, hardly. A British trade mission or two was in town (TIME, July 8) and Perón was playing hard...
Crosses mark the 120-mile desert trail from Sonoyta, Mexico, to San Luis, Ariz. Under the crosses are the corpses of wanderers who have died along its arid and terrible wastes. In Mexico it is called "El Camino del Diablo." Last week seven new crosses were put up on the Devil's Highway...
...great burst of energy and both kinds of matter would vanish into nothing-literally nothing at all. This would explain why Soviet scientists with elaborate geophysical equipment could find no fragments of the great meteorite which smacked Central Siberia in 1908, although similar searches around Canyon Diablo, Arizona's famed meteorite crater, were successful. The Siberian meteorite was perhaps contraterrene, the Arizona meteorite of earthlike matter...