disaster

Are we as safe as we should be from such a disaster??

And yet we obviously also believe that the avoidance of the disaster depends in some obscure or at least uncertain way on the details of how we behave.

In agriculture, for example, despite the advances in biology, elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster.

and the motion toward it brings disaster.

In spite of the disaster, Wright completed during this period plans for the Lake Tahoe resort, in which he suggested the shapes of American Indian tepees -- a project of great and appropriate charm, that came to nothing.

But the enmities it will incur, the isolation into which it will descend, and the internal moral and spiritual softness that will be engendered, will, in the long term, bring it to economic and political disaster.

Free world decisions in this matter may spell the difference between world disaster and world progress in freedom.

This enviable record would have been maintained but for a great and unexpected disaster which struck the world with murderous stealth.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s, A Canticle For Leibowitz ( 1959 ) finds men, after the great atomic disaster, stumbling back to their previous level of civilization and another catastrophe ; ;

His new book, entitled `` Slums And Suburbs '', calls for fast and drastic action to avert disaster.

In 1950, Public Law 920 created Civil Defense ( different from Civilian-groups of World War 2 ), a responsibility of the Government at all levels to help reduce loss of life and property in disaster, natural or manmade.

Civil Defense has far to go and many problems to solve, but is it not in the best spirit of our pioneer tradition to be not only willing, but prepared to care for our own families and help our neighbors in any disaster -- storm, flood, accident or even war??

It was a disaster!!

The cycle of disaster starts the moment they touch any belonging of ours, and dogs them unto the forty-fifth generation.

And everywhere in evidence among the few remaining defensive units was that old handmaiden of disaster -- multiple command.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

What disaster struck the Discovery during those seventeen months??

For three years, since the liquor territorial conference, Torrio had, with his elastic patience, and because he knew that retaliation could cause only violent warfare and disaster to business, tolerated O'Banion's impudent double-crossing.

The tsunami-warning system developed since the 1946 disaster in Hawaii relies mainly on a simple and ingenious instrument devised by Commander C. K. Green of the Coast and Geodetic Survey staff.

Since the 1946 disaster there have been 15 tsunami in the Pacific, but only one was of any consequence.

The role of an earthquake in starting the destruction of whole cities is tremendously frightening, but fire may actually be the principal agent in a particular disaster.

In view of Eisenhower's reluctance to concede that anything was amiss in the Terror, it is doubtful that heroic intervention by Dulles could have produced anything but disaster for him and the country's foreign policy.

She had caught him off guard, no preparation, nothing certain but that ahead lay some kind of disaster.

`` Los Angeles has said they would send the children to their homes in case of disaster '', he said.

The play's device is to explore society's obsession with disaster and violence through the eyes of a group of artist's models who remain part of someone else's painting rather than just be themselves.