Word: abyss
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...must now risk a drive to the abyss of war, if only by so doing we shall ensure the peace and survival of mankind...
Communists, predictably, fussed about the tests. At the arms-control talks in Geneva. Soviet Delegate Zorin charged the U.S. with "hypocrisy, an aggressive act against peace, pushing the world closer to an abyss of atomic war." There were no immediate demonstrations in Moscow or in Communist China, although the Chicoms sounded angriest of all. Peking newspaper Ta Rung Pao charged that the tests showed that President Kennedy is "more vicious, more cunning and more adventurist than his predecessor...
...resumption of tests "is an indication of the edge of the abyss on which we are living," concluded Niebuhr...
...things he's not worth the brine to pickle a herring. He's just a piece of live manure and he knows it. When he looks around after his drink and smiles at us, the world seems to be falling to pieces. It's a smile thrown across an abyss. The whole stinking civilization lies like quagmire at the bottom of the pit, and over it, like a mirage, hovers this wavering smile...
...Freudian probe" that has unveiled "an abyss within man, full of new embarrassments and a new terror...