Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomatic relations, or even a mere shutting off of oil shipments to Spain-any one of these might bring about a change of regime. But unless the democracies' plans were carefully laid, a change of regime under any of these circumstances might also plunge Spain again into the abyss of civil war. The western democracies knew, and Franco knew they knew, that civil war might bring civil chaos and Communism's great opportunity. Franco's confident defiance sprang from misunderstanding of the West's dilemma...
...does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice...
Speaking Sunday night in Emerson D, Reinhold Niebuhr, of the Union Theological Seminary, identified the "cultural abyss of the age" as man's failure to recognize his basic weakness, insecurity...
...else has caught so well our sense of this still moment when we balance on the edge of the abyss and try to apprehend the heights which must be scaled...
...Brazilians, French, Tunisians. Senegalese, and U.S. (white, Negro and Nisei) troops-were making headway. If Rimini falls, the way will lie open into the Po valley and the Gothic Line will be flanked. Last week in the course of this fighting, another nation was precipitated, almost unnoticed, into the abyss...