Word: cataclysms
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...least discredit the Bonn regime is not expected to involve overt military action. While U.S. officials do not discount the Kremlin's tough language entirely, they tend to think that the Russians are well aware that an armed confrontation in West Germany could swiftly lead to cataclysm. Anxious to emphasize its concern nonetheless, the U.S. last week announced that NATO maneuvers, originally scheduled for mid-1969, may be moved up to the first of the year. On several occasions, top State Department officials reiterated that the allies viewed the situation with the utmost gravity...
...year to fill 140,000 new jobs. The rest are dry tinder, milling in the country's bloated cities. As Curle sees it, the summer sparks in U.S. ghettoes and what he refers to as the "incredible volume of violence in the underdeveloped world" are only hints of the cataclysm brewing in slums and vilages around the globe...
...quickly pollute the Asian skies, Neiburger fears, dirtying the air currents even before they reach the U.S. Eventually, if air pollution increases beyond the capacity of the atmosphere to cleanse itself, smog will encircle the earth, he says, "and all of civilization will pass away. Not from a sudden cataclysm, but from gradual suffocation by its own effluents...
...would submit," he writes, "that in regard to the power of hoarding up impressions, Russian children of my generation passed through a period of genius, as if destiny were loyally trying what it could for them by giving them more than their share, in view of the total cataclysm that was to remove completely the world they had known...
...resemblance was sufficient, in fact, to launch Mireille on a career that has become, as one French magazine termed it, "a tornado, a cyclone, a cataclysm." Dressed in the death-wish black that was Piaf's trademark, she caused a sensation at Paris' Olympia music hall singing the plaintive ballads that made "the Sparrow of the Streets" a national idol until her death in 1963. Soon Mireille's recordings were topping the bestseller lists; this summer she sang 64 consecutive sellout concerts in the provinces, outdrawing all other French and foreign singers. Last month her pixyish face...