Word: seismic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their splendor, many of the buildings and details that caught Kelemen's eye were in a crumbling state. Even in a few years' time, "the volcano of Paricutin in Mexico . . . floods in Guatemala, seismic catastrophes in El Salvador and Ecuador, civil strife in Colombia and an earthquake in Cuzco have all taken a tragic toll." Worst of all, according to Kelemen: civil authorities who are letting local masterpieces deteriorate through neglect-or are tearing them down to make way for widened streets and modern buildings...
...nerves. After a day at his dull bank clerk's job, his restlessness would become intolerable, driving him out for long, aimless walks. On the rainswept night that the strapping young stranger stopped to ask the way to a nearby town, Langrish felt as though a "seismic disturbance" were taking place in his brain...