Word: cataclysmal
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...Nicaragua shall not be the patrimony of Imperialists. I will fight for my cause as long as my heart beats. ... If through destiny I should lose, there are in my arsenal five tons of dynamite which I will explode with my own hand. The noise of the cataclysm will be heard 250 miles. All who hear will be witness that Sandino is dead. Let it not be permitted that the hands of traitors or invaders shall profane his remains...
Then, since another war must be avoided if we are to exist, how may the cataclysm be averted ? Senator Borah has said: "War must be declared a crime and be no longer recognized, in any way or at any time, as a legitimate method of settling international disputes." Author Kenworthy submits that if this attitude were officially and solemnly adopted by the most powerful nations "everything else would follow automatically...
...Church of Christ will be sorted out and lifted up "to reign with Christ" for 1,000 years." This selection is supposed to have been going on since 1874. The War was one great proving of the chosen ones. By 1928 will have come, the predictions go, another great cataclysm, a grand bust-up. "Nations will battle; the dead will be dung on the earth...
...Minister Painlevé said: "The Mass Mobilization Bill only insures daily collaboration between the economic and military defenders of France. . . . No effort should be spared to avoid the cataclysm which, the next time, would wipe out entire populations, without distinction to age or sex. Any statesman who does not dwell on these thoughts is not worthy of public trust...
...show history moving in 500-year cycles, one of which is to end, and with it the so-called "modern" era (from 1450 on), in 1950. Gothic alone embodies the spirituality, the truth "as absolute as the difference between right and wrong," that can survive. He predicts a "cataclysm." He cries in the night, with the language of Thomas Carlyle and the tone of Ecclesiastes, for a "master man," a hero to worship and to lead. "Religion lacks its Pentecostal tongue; art lacks the Pentecostal flames of divine inspiration." Woe to the artist-one can see Mr. Cram...