Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter of 1939-40. Many of Nate's painting crew could not stand the 12,000-ft. altitude and 35-below-zero temperature. Once, on treacherous Loveland Pass, Nate's car was blown off the road, and only a luckily placed tree saved him from a plunge into a chasm...
Died. Rose O'Neill, 69, cartoonist creator of the "Kewpie Doll"; in Springfield, Mo. Exquisitely beautiful daughter of an Irish ne'er-do-well who later retired to a Missouri chasm, the onetime Omaha convent girl became a newspaper cartoonist at 13, in later years attempted serious painting and sculpture, never really learned linear perspective. She copyrighted her epicene homunculus in 1909, after first seeing its teardrop-headed form in a dream. Pirated the world over, the "Kewpie Doll" sold more than 5,000,000 copies, brought its twice-married parent more than...
...have politics-as-usual, special-interests-as-usual, or any of our ordinary materialistic, acquisitive, ambitious habits-as-usual. That is not good enough, and the leaders of groups, blocs, factions, lobbies and parties here at home had better recognize that now before they open up an unbridgeable chasm between those who have served and sacrificed on the one hand, and those who have looked out for themselves on the other...
...dangling ropes-- that is the treat. It is just enough to keep everyone happy. Beneath these dangling ropes is a pit, twelve feet across and five feet deep. The object is to spring the forty yards between obstacles, jump six feet, grab the rope and swing across the chasm to the other side. Another spring of forty feet, another hurdle and then the dessert, (boy, what a meal.) Everyone likes a large, sweet, mouth-watering dessert. The Obstacle Course provides exactly that. A ladder extends in the air for thirty feet. You go up one side and down the other...
...strange group-26 Americans, 13 British, 16 Chinese, two doctors, seven Quaker ambulance drivers, 19 Kachin, Karen and Burmese nurses, and an assortment of some 30 servants and refugees. They went first by motor transport into a jungle. Their path crossed elephant trails until they came to a chasm bridged only by a rope suspension which could carry nothing heavier than jeeps. (Belden had one.) General Stilwell ordered everyone to strip unnecessary paraphernalia so as to be able to walk. In the weeds a pile of elegant rubbish grew-steel helmets, pink brassieres, whiskey bottles, tins of powder, notebooks, overcoats...