Word: abyss
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...disaster, we too pray that China and the Soviet Union will exercise restraint. But from the American people, we hope for the opposite. Critics of the President and his war policy have been too restrained for too long. As Nixon revs up the war machine and veers toward the abyss, we must place ourselves in his path. We must force the slaughter to a halt...
Although many details of the trip are still secret, it is likely that in Peking the President and Mrs. Nixon will stay in a government guest house near the Jade Abyss Pool on the capital's western outskirts. On the evening of their arrival, there may well be a state banquet in the Great Hall of the People, the all-purpose government entertainment center. Before departing for Hangchow, the President, it is thought, will repay his hosts with a banquet, also in the Great Hall. The Chinese will supply the food, but Nixon is carrying in American champagne...
...wake of strikes and student riots that focused on wages, educational reform and a host of other issues, the generals eagerly imposed martial law. In his first speech as President, Yahya delighted his military sponsors by declaring that the country was at "the edge of an abyss." What really bothered the generals was that the country might be on the verge of a return to genuine civilian rule, posing grave dangers to the army's power and perks...
...taken too much mescaline too soon and, as he watched Mick Jagger prance around the stage at Boston Garden, he thought he was either seeing God or on the verge of a nervous breakdown. There was a moment at the brink of the abyss, but then he decided in favor of God and pulled himself together. Like nearly everyone else...
...enigmas which-desire seems to pose for a "natural philosophy" -its frenzy mocking the abyss of the infinite, the secret collusion by which it obscures the pleasure of knowing and of joyful domination, these amount to nothing more than that derangement of the instincts that comes from being caught on the rails-of metonymy. Wherefore its "perverse" fixation at the very suspension-point of the signifying chain where the memory-screen freezes and the fascinating image of the fetish petrifies...