Word: cataclysmal
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Some experts believe that Bay Area residents may be peculiarly vulnerable to the syndrome, precisely because they have been anticipating a cataclysm for years. "Chronic stress is very harmful," notes Dr. James Shore of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, who surveyed victims of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. "Preparedness can make people more susceptible...
Even for those born long after San Francisco's great 1906 earthquake and fire, it had become a habit to recall the warm, breezy conditions during that cataclysm. Looking out a window from her home in suburban Sunnyvale, Neta Lott remarked to her husband Byron that the Indian-summer evening of Oct. 17 seemed like "darned good earthquake weather." Moments later, the shaking and rolling began. Byron, an electrical engineer, fell to the floor. Neta tried to get up but remained pinned to her chair until she rolled onto the floor. "I sat under the desk and thought I would...
Stop and Shop attorney George A. McLaughlin, Jr. told the council that the chain definitely intends to build a new supermarket, barring "a general economic cataclysm." Although McLaughlin showed the council pictures of a similar Stop and Shop in Connecticut, he said the company did not have concrete plans for the Riverside Rd. site...
...Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R., he warned, had barely a year, or less,to put its house in order. "We are on the edge of an abyss," he told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, "and if we go over the edge, it will lead to a cataclysm, not only for the Soviet Union but for the whole world...
That sentence, appearing in TIME magazine 50 years ago, reported the start of a cataclysm that would ultimately sweep across five continents and change the world forever...