Word: chasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vice mayor, Maynard Jackson, a black: "The poor white is beginning to tell himself that it is not enough just to be white. He sees, through television and other media, an America more affluent than ever before. And between that affluence and his own miserable life lies a chasm of despair." At the same time, many unions remain unyielding in opening their ranks to blacks, while white-black clashes in mixed schools and neighborhoods appear to be on the increase throughout the country. Especially in times of recession, fear for one's job outweighs possible common economic interests with...
...diary Anne called him Colonel L. She confided unhappily: "I want to be married, but I never, never will." Certain prides and prejudices needed working out: "He never opens a book, does he? How that separates him from our world. It is hideous to think about-a hideous chasm." The courtship actually began during a special sightseeing flight, Lindbergh at the controls, which resulted in a characteristically girlish epiphany: "Clouds and stars and birds- must have been walking with my head down looking at the puddles for 20 years...
...south, A deep chasm becomes...
...There are several reasons for West Germany's status as the spy center of Europe: it is part of a divided country on the edge of the East-West chasm, it is the base for 210,000 U.S. troops and a sizable nuclear arsenal, and it can be easily serviced from espionage centers in East Germany. On certain nights, a voice broadcast over a short-wave band from the closely guarded Karlshorst...
...physical decay that urban renewal has attacked but failed to cure. All the loser cities have experienced racial strife along with a rapid increase in their black populations. Businessmen are now simply following the white middle class to suburbia. Understandable as their individual decisions are, they are widening the chasm of race and class in many U.S. metropolitan areas...