Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beware the Chasm!" One day, shortly after her seduction, Honor went horseback riding with Sir Richard. "Beware the chasm!" he cried, as they charged across a wild moor. It was too late. Honor plummeted into the "yawning crevice" and was totally wrecked below the waist. So Richard married a rich widow...
Historian Townsend concludes: "There can be no peace" unless Christians become aware of "the wide chasm lying between their religious beliefs and practices...
...America and Europe," he has decided, "have come to a final parting of the roads." Separated by an unbridgeable "spiritual chasm," America and Germany today represent to Author Hauser not only the "extremes of wealth and poverty" but also the extremes of decadence and the Spartan spirit. Readers of The German Talks Back, which is partly autobiographical, will catch on to the manner of man Author Hauser is when they recognize that ever since childhood he has arbitrarily split his worlds into "decadent" and "Spartan" halves...
...steep Caraballo Mountains of northern Luzon, a battalion of the 127th Infantry Regiment last week came upon a vast road block-a chasm blasted by retreating Japs...
...Colonel Powell A. Fraser, had his jeeps dismantled, called for native bearers. Scores of volunteers-sturdy, brown-bodied Igorot women -eagerly picked up wheels, engines and other parts, carried them along paths which at one point soared 2,000 feet above the road. On the other side of the chasm the jeeps were reassembled, and Fraser's men sped after the Japs. The Igorot women stayed behind to help the engineers rebuild the road...