Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form and size of the figure." In recent years it has turned its batteries of disapproval on the baggy pants of some of Britain's top Socialist ministers. Nothing, however, that Tailor & Cutter discerned in Westminster or the wastes of the U.S. could quite equal the awful abyss it found in Moscow...
Across the abyss of a dozen years, Alger and Priscilla Hiss made their careful and precise defense to the accusations of Whittaker and Esther Chambers. Step by step, four quiet, middle-aged people were drawing near the climax of their tragedy...
...ideological sink" which had spawned the treachery. For Communists who were still safe at home, Nep offered a little fatherly advice: "The important thing (to remember) is that treason against the party, deviation from the Marxist-Leninist line, is a steep slope from which plunging into the imperialist abyss is easy...
Short of dragging a mechanical thinking machine into the exam room, science has not yet succeeded in developing anything for students who loom on the edge of academic abyss during exam period. But a Dr. William Brady of Chicago claims he has an answer to the perennial problem. The men at 15 Holyoke st. say he doesn...
Last week, in the opulent gloom of movie theaters in Manhattan and Chicago, the lovely woman screamed & screamed. For a moment, the scene looked exactly like the old-fashioned thrill shot that moviemakers call a "cliff-hanger." But what moviegoers were actually getting was a breathtaking glimpse of an abyss in the infinite mountains of the mind...