Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...F.D.R. in World War II, he wrote the Court's 1944 opinion upholding the wholesale relocation of West Coast Japanese-Americans (actively supported in 1942 by California's then attorney general, Earl Warren) over Justice Frank Murphy's eloquent dissent that called the ruling "the ugly abyss of racism." By 1952, Black had swung so far around to a concept of limited Government that he wrote
Always in the past, the soldiers stepped aside when the crisis had passed, and marched back to their barracks. Not this time-not after watch ing Brazil slide steadily down the abyss with Goulart and his far-leftist cronies...
...Self-portrait, 1889, oils, 65 x 54 cm., sometimes known as 'Vincent in the Flames'. The description in the catalogue read:' . . .Taut to the breaking point, it testifies to van Gogh's struggle to master his inward turmoil .... An expression of supreme equilibrium on the brink of the abyss...
...item: "We hear from Boston that last Thursday evening, between 300 and 400 Boxes of the celebrated East India TEA, by some ACCIDENT! which happened in an attempt to get it on Shore, fell overboard-That the Boxes burst open and the Tea was swallowed up by the vast Abyss...
...Prince Sihanouk last week hailed France for the "incontestable prestige she has been able to recover in the course of the last few years," and burbled that France "is perhaps the only power able to throw a solid bridge between the Occident and Orient, separated by an abyss of incomprehension...