Word: cataclysmal
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...becomes progressively more pitiful and more comical. George Cole, whose doleful, expressive face is perfect for the part, makes Potts almost Chaplinesque. The beginning is also enlivened by some very funny caricatures of British bureaucrats and civil servants as they frantically try to retrieve the plans for "Project Cataclysm...
...taxes to defend their land, afford to pay for all the luxuries Americans enjoy . . . who deem it a privilege to help the world remain free, so that we may remain free ourselves. We are admittedly a warm-hearted people when disaster strikes. Must we be awakened by a cataclysm...
...together again, something to serve, not as man's history-ordained master, but as his servant and instrument. When you have men in their millions who have the sense of this ingrained in them, you have that which will safeguard them-and will safeguard you-from the ultimate cataclysm and the final bestiality...
...labor, and in so doing, he tumbled into a constitutional crisis. He displayed an uncanny talent for demanding negotiations when they had no chance to succeed, for upsetting negotiations when the prospects were promising. He refused to use the Taft-Hartley law. The net result was a seven-month cataclysm in U.S. life, which already has had these measurable effects: ¶ The nation has lost 19 million tons of steel, has been forced to shut down ammunition plants, airplane assembly lines and parts plants, will suffer a delay in schedules for at least one year. ¶ Some...
...sources of this cataclysm go back far beyond the Truman era to the early days of the New Deal. First in NRA and later in the Wagner Labor Relations Act, the New Deal provided the shield for a new labor organizing drive. And it provided a mass of new federal machinery to regulate employer-union relationships...