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Did some part of him really want such a catastrophe to come about?

But we are in the middle of an education catastrophe.

They would have a catastrophe of their own to deal with.

She asked me if I had made one just at the time of the catastrophe.

The result of such a catastrophe would mean no children in the community for another five years.

To let them get through a day on their own would be a catastrophe.

Then, the public was able to focus on one catastrophe.

That would still leave open the question of how the catastrophe started.

Oh, it was going to be the catastrophe of the century.

Congress is doing its best to make financial catastrophe more likely.

"It takes a major catastrophe to get people out of the house."

What happened in the 70's was a catastrophe, they say.

At this point in history, free power would be a catastrophe.

I have done everything within my power to face the expected catastrophe.

It has to do with the catastrophe I've been talking about.

Such a catastrophe should not happen, whatever the cost to him.

The risk of environmental catastrophe is too great, they say.

She did not know which would be the greater catastrophe.

His wife's death, however, was nothing less than a personal catastrophe.

Two years later, in 1882, came a year of catastrophe.

They have all brought us to this point of catastrophe.

But then, that might have led to its own catastrophe.

There are actually more people living in the city now than before the catastrophe.

This is however not a catastrophe, and the system can continue to work.

The coming of the children was a catastrophe any way you looked at it.