Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep in the abyss of a protracted hitting slump, the Crimson Varsity nine will have to rely chiefly on the pitching efforts of lanky, 145-pound Charlie Brackett when it tangles with a strong Boston University nine in a return engagement this afternoon on Riverside Field. In its second home game, Coach Adolph Samborski's Yardling nine meets the Terrier whelps on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock...
...Rather, this England approaches death with sensual pleasure and smacks its lips over every phase and bears every humiliation and every cynicism if only it can hope that, in dying, it may also drag its enemy into the abyss. The psychopath knows that in such cases pleasure in destruction parallels pleasure in self-destruction...
General de Gaulle took to the radio in London. "France, crushed, humiliated and betrayed, is beginning to climb once more up the slope of the abyss," he cried to the Empire. From Winston Churchill came a quick letter of assurance that French colonies who supported England's cause would receive the same trade and political concessions as British possessions. The Vichy Government denounced Britain for fostering the revolt, discharged Eboue from his governorship, declared wishfully that "all necessary dispositions have been taken to localize the situation...
...fail, the whole world, including the United States, and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister and perhaps more prolonged by the lights of a perverted science...
...President, in a panic, told M. Reynaud he could not do this thing. France was beside the abyss, the danger was immediate and deathly. If Reynaud resigned, democracy in France would be finished; the only alternative was military dictatorship under Weygand or Petain. In the end Reynaud agreed to stay-providing he could purge the Cabinet...