Word: cataclysm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sole responsibility." This was the official British view. Any weakening of this position, setting Gandhi free-and thus permitting him to break his fast -would be an admission that the British were wrong. If the British stuck to their point (and Gandhi died) the result might be an immediate cataclysm. Or it might be the slower, perhaps more disastrous culmination of hate and anger...
...This war is not the final cataclysm, not the ultimate showdown between the forces of darkness and light, but perhaps only the beginning of a new series of convulsions, spread over a much larger period of history than we originally thought, until the new world is born...
Only days, hours, minutes of this ticking silence-and the blow would fall in the greatest cataclysm of blood and steel the world had ever borne...
...prove himself still further. The further cataclysm that gave Raeder his burning, hard-eyed religion was the dying days of the war, when the German Navy was ordered out to sea-and men mutinied. The fleet did not go out. To Raeder's grooved, naval mind, the realization that his idol had a Communist brain and no muscle was the final, hardening blow. On the June afternoon when a faithful few scuttled 74 ships of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow, he dedicated himself again...
...lull clouds gathered. War machines were cranking up. Great events would come, must come, cataclysm on cataclysm. The nation's armies and armaments grew like thunderheads; some day soon they must burst with a great explosive flash...