Word: abyss
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...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...
Hanging by one hand to the corner of a tarpaulin and swinging over this abyss with kicking legs was a little girl. She and two others had been playing on top of the hatch -the other two had been killed. I saw a soldier pull her to safety, and she was eventually saved...
...week. . . . It is true that you have the Italians as allies. We had them last time and we know all about them. . . . It is your Führer, and not my old Prime Minister, who will give the signal to attack. . . . Perhaps you will recognize in time the abyss toward which you are being led. . . . Until next week, with best regards...
...Charlotte, Branwell's death at 31 meant "the untimely, dreary extinction of what might have been a bright and shining light." Emily loved him most. "Drive me mad," she had prayed bitterly in Wuthering Heights, "but do not leave me in an abyss where I cannot find you." Her own death came twelve weeks after...
This week Dr. Lynd joined the ranks of planners who hope to save men from the abyss by a big blueprint. He published a book with a startling title: Knowledge for What?* In it, Professor Lynd proposed that the U. S., having failed to get a plan from educators, preachers, politicians, businessmen or engineers, be brought to order by social scientists...