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But she understood that a tone of cool authoritativeness left no room for her childhood catastrophes, her anger at getting a girl's paltry education, her palpable delight in reading.
) A NYT "Week in Review" piece ticks off seven potential catastrophes that could jeopardize Bush's coronation as the GOP candidate-designate.
"We have ignited the very human rights catastrophe the war was started to avoid," declared Pat Buchanan on Face the Nation . Columnist Arianna Huffington compared Kosovo to Waco, arguing that just as Clinton's actions six years ago "precipitated" the murder-suicides by the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, his intervention in Kosovo "has unwittingly produced one of the great humanitarian catastrophes of the 20 th century."
Henry had the remarkable ability to delight in a single flower in bloom, however many weeds and catastrophes surrounded it.
The ancient walled city of Kaifeng, located in eastern Henan (Honan) Province, lies near enough to the unpredictable Yellow River to have known more than its share of catastrophes — and when it wasn’t being flooded it was being pillaged.