Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chasm...
...this applies as well to the club officer's regard of his rank-and-file) leads to a martyred bitterness toward those whom he is supposed to represent. The realization that his fellows are asking "Who cares?" eventually leads him to mutter, "The hell with them," and the chasm between the academic reality and the dream of the leader increases considerably...
There exists a vast chasm between East and West, however, "on the great issues of European security, of Germany and of Berlin," he told a meeting of political supporters...
...chasm that split Gamal Abdel Nasser from the West more than two years ago in the Anglo-French invasion of Suez was papered over by money last week. The strongman of the Nile, needing written help to withstand the Communists in the Middle East, got set to make an economic settlement with the British. The U.S. has already agreed to sell him 200,000 tons of surplus wheat, and the French have signed a $5,000,000 barter deal with him. The British-Egyptian compromise was worked out by World Bank President Eugene Black, the discreet and yam-voiced international...
...year proved the gloomsayers wrong. Just as the U.S. learned to under stand its new economy, so Canadians discovered that their young, dynamic land was increasingly able to stand on its own feet. Canada did not tumble into the V-shaped chasm that threatened briefly to trap the U.S. economy. If anything, Canada's recession was milder than the slump in the U.S. Except in the winter months, unemployment hit a smaller part of the working force in Canada. Industrial production sagged less sharply, recovered earlier. At year's end Canadians added up a new $32 billion record...