Word: chasms
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...rise above India's noisy democracy. Last year, with his rightist rivals ascendant, Vajpayee more or less retired from public view. But after the fundamentalists reached their high-tide mark last December with the re-election of the ultra-hard-line Narendra Modi as Gujarat's Chief Minister, a chasm opened in the center of Indian politics that only Vajpayee could fill. Last month, when BJP president Venkaiah Naidu suggested that Deputy Prime Minister Advani should lead the party into a general election jointly with Vajpayee, the PM merely had to threaten to resign and Naidu backed down, apologized...
...sense there had been a chasm that was unbridgeable [between students and faculty],” said Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, a member of the Leaning Committee, at the May 6 Faculty meeting. “That has begun to change...
Maddox’s literary agent in America, Ellen Levine, says that Maddox has a particular talent for “accessible writing—you don’t get a distance or chasm that you often get when writers are very serious about their revered biographical subjects...
...sense there had been a chasm that was unbridgeable [between students and Faculty],” said Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, a committee member who said that the students’ positive reaction to the findings was heartening. “That has begun to change...
...Then rock 'n roll, as it became the dominant form of pop culture, chiseled a chasm between the music heard in the theater and the music heard on the radio. Soaring Broadway ballads, dewy with emotion, were instant anachronisms. A few female singers did essay the occasional show tune: Aretha Franklin did a rousing "Are You Sure" from "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," and Ketty Lester turned "Once Upon a Time" into the last frail breath of remembered ardor. But these thrushes were crowded out of the Top 40 by jail-bait divas like Rosie Hamlin ("Angel Baby"), Little Peggy March...