They warned that the female students would wee on the trees Obama planted in 2006 if he didn't, before going on to threaten even more "catastrophic, calamitous, cataclysmic" action from the male students.
If contemporary caricatures spoke to the calamitous thoughts, projects, and actions of the man, officially sanctioned photographs, paintings, sculptures, and film overwhelmingly projected him as an impassioned orator or heroically isolated figure.
Following racist comments and the calamitous impact of his actions on Arizona's tourist industry, Mecham was impeached for obstruction of justice and misuse of government funds, and left office in 1988; two years later, however, Arizona voters rejected recognising Martin Luther King Jr Day, inspiring this slow-burning broadside.
Even though the losses were severe, the overall action was not calamitous.
Her actions may prove calamitous or redemptive, but she transforms nearly every character in the novel, including Leo.
"It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on". -- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason.
In the end, there are two climate threats: one created by increasing human vulnerability to calamitous weather, the other by human actions, particularly emissions of warming gases, that relentlessly shift the odds toward making today's weather extremes tomorrow's norm.
Case Keenum will return to action this Sunday, replacing the calamitous Nick Foles, but it's hard to feel too optimistic about your quarterbacking Plan B when it involves a man who has thrown all of three touchdown passes since 2013.
Now languishing in 77th place, having shed the majority of its initial sites, the Josh Duhamel action film fell by a calamitous 96%, with second-frame takings of £850 from 13 venues, delivering a £65 average.
Controversial through all the years that she wrote newspaper opinion-page pieces and appeared on television talk shows, Ms. Kishline has again inflamed a debate over moderation versus abstinence by offering her own calamitous story as an example of denial in action.
