Word: chasms
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...division--one created by two and a half years of infighting--is between the five councillors who voted to fire DeGuglielmo, and the former City Manager's three supporters on the Council--Daniel J. Hayes Jr., Bernard Goldberg, and Cornelia B. Wheeler. As DeGuglielmo becomes more a memory, this chasm may be bridge, but for the moment it still exists...
During the last three weeks, the Johnson administration has been deepening the credibility chasm with a series of maneuvers shamelessly worsening the quibble over a site for preliminary peace talks with Hanoi. In a frenzied propaganda effort calculated to cover Johnson's embarrassing decision to renege on his "anywhere at anytime" pledge, Dean Rusk Thursday affected eager magnanimity by offering ten new sites...
...artifices and of vesting them with pompous officialdom. Steinberg contrasts the substantiality of a painted chunk of rich brown earth and a simple tree, with the frenzied intricacy of man's nervous world, by juxtaposing the two scenes on cliffs separated by a narrow but precipitous chasm...
They charged that SANE -founded ten years ago as the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and virtually devoid of purpose since the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty-was schizophrenically split. The chasm existed "between those who support the use of democratic means to bring about change in[U.S. Viet Nam] policy and those who believe the society must be overturned before peace is possible." In their letter of proposed resignation, the dissenters found particularly "intolerable" the fact that Spock served simultaneously as a spokesman for SANE and co-chairman of the National Conference for New Politics, "a group that...
...Jewish. The faculty is particularly strong in biochemistry, bacteriology, chemistry, physics, English, history and math. Brandeis' experience, contends Sachar, proves that it is possible to build a quality university in a hurry if "you do the best right from the beginning-you don't bridge a chasm in two leaps...