Word: abyss
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...dubbed, topically at the time, a "football new deal" for the University, Harlow's first team emphatically improved upon its immediate predecessor: it played respectable football at all times, it reduced margins of defeat to a gentlemanly size, and it turned the local gridiron tide away from the 1934 abyss back toward its traditional prominence. By 1936, Harvard men were no longer apologizing for their football team...
Anthony Eden said that Britain had been "doing tne splits over an ever-widening abyss." Last week Britain slipped and was left clinging to the face of a clif...
Slowly, with no trace of his cockney cockiness, Morrison, pale and ill at ease, took Britain to the edge of the abyss and made her look down. "If we cut imports too far," he said, "great [downward] adjustments become necessary in our production and in our whole standard of living. But we cannot indefinitely go on importing what we cannot pay for, and I must tell the House quite frankly that it may come to this-and a tragically bad day it would be for us, for Europe, and for the world's best hopes of prosperity...
Said the Paris Combat: "The world stands at the edge of an abyss. Germany will be divided into two blocs, and there will be iron curtains on both sides...
...Modern Christians: "The damned in the abyss of their torments have no other refreshment than the spectacle of the devils' hideous faces. The friends of Jesus see all around them the modern Christians, and thus it is that they are able to picture hell...