Word: cataclysmical
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...ghetto life, he retreats behind the shopworn shield of journalistic objectivity, insisting that his only concern is to get the story. The progress of his love affair with the widow parallels the gradual weakening of his own prejudices and defenses, until both are finally trapped in the ultimate cataclysm of the convention's madness...
...this turns out to be the last time they all got together, the thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses who gathered last week in New York City's Yankee Stadium for an international assembly will not be a bit surprised. In fact, they fully expect the cataclysm of Armageddon within the next few years. The latest calculations of this energetic, eschatology-minded sect date the end of the world in autumn...
TIME has had frequent occasion in the past few years to speculate on the future of France and the rest of the world après De Gaulle. When mirage became reality on the evening of April 27, our correspondents were well-prepared to cover the cataclysm. Sensing in advance that France would say non to the general, Paris Bureau Chief William Rademaekers, a veteran European reporter, had assigned six correspondents-all French-speaking-to cover France's leading politicians, four major provincial cities and news sources in the capital...
Today, facing furies unimagined and unimaginable in Wilder's heyday, most people cannot share Wilder's optimism. In the 1960s the U.S. has admittedly been spared depressions, cataclysm, poxes, civil war and nuclear devastation-not to mention prevalent permafrost. Alas, few other prophets can speak with the certitude of geologists promising an unfrozen future-as this or any week's news suggests. The Administration claims that Moscow may soon have the capability to devastate the U.S. with a formidable new battery of nuclear missiles. Yet any attempt to counter the Soviet threat (if it is real) would...
...April uprising started and grew haphazardly. As it developed to the final academic cataclysm, its entire character was altered...