Word: chasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fitzgerald denounced the chasm created by technology between war crimes and their perpetrators. "Pilots flying over Vietnam are to busy eating ham sandwiches and listening to baseball scores to see what they're doing," she said...
...almost any sticky situation is to form a committee. A committee is a useful tool to the beleaguered administrator: It diffuses criticism, it shoulders blame, and, in some lucky circumstances, it performs efficiently and well. This latter quality, in most perspectives, in the crucial ingredient which traverses the chasm between the ceremonial and the purposeful...
...also dismissed reports that a chasm had opened between Mass Hall and Dean Dunlop and his advisory in University Hall. "There is a very close working relationship between Mass Hall and University Hall," Steiner commented. "Dean Dunlop is close friends with President Bok and we have great respect...
Riegle's political about-face, (some might say the end of his political naivete) can best be illustrated by the widening of the ideological chasm between himself and his original sponsor: Richard Nixon. The two men met in Cambridge in 1965, when Riegle, an "upward-bound, goal-directed hot-shot," was at the Harvard Business School. Nixon, in town to hire talent for his New York law firm, encouraged Riegle to run for a congressional seat in Flint, Michigan, then a Democratic stronghold...
...understand neither his own mean circumstances nor the sources of Connie's passion for him. Lawrence lacked Thomas Hardy's gift for making the inner lives of simple people eloquent, but at least this Parkin makes the reader aware of the social chasm that Connie Chatterley proposed to cross. Similarly, the ambience of Wragby Hall, dominated by her crippled husband Clifford and his overbred friends, is more fully detailed and becomes one of Lawrence's burning outcries against industrial waste and acquisitiveness...