Word: cataclysmic
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...only world that had ever mattered to him - the secure home his parents had vouchsafed him - was gone, and for a time he had no hope for the future. His mother's death came to stand not only for her removal from his life, which would have been a cataclysm by itself, but also, because of the war, for Schulz's total separation from childhood and home. He would refer to it as a "loss from which I sometimes believe I never recovered...
...After 25 years of Roe v. Wade, I think a sudden change would be a cataclysm in this country," Robinson said...