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This made him doubly upset, for what a catastrophe that would have been!

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With so many people watching this catastrophe unfold, the odds that any one of them would offer to help were tragically slim.

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“Their goal was bringing about a catastrophe on the train line.”

"The goal was to cause a rail catastrophe," Tusk told MPs.

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His appeal to latter-day fascists is limited, given that the early success of his regime led only to servitude and then total catastrophe.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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