Word: chasms
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...pledge to O'Brien, twists the Congressional arms of Larry's choosing and, mostly, at Larry's request. With an expanded corps of operatives-five men for floor work, twelve women researchers and secretaries-O'Brien has shown unprecedented agility in spanning the hazardous chasm between the Hill and the White House-maintaining what Bryce Harlow, President Eisenhower's legislative man, called "an ambulatory bridge across a constitutional gulf...
...America, a compelling study of poverty in the U.S. that caught the attention of President Kennedy. In his new book, Author Harrington abandons sociological reportage and essays a sweeping analysis of 20th century culture in crisis. His theses are all too familiar. Proliferating technology has transformed Western civilization: "The chasm between technological capacity and economic, political, social, and religious consciousness has unsettled every faith and creed in the West." Economic collectivization is inevitable. But it has begun in America without conscious planning, and the power of economic decision now rests with bureaucratic corporations rather than with the democratic mass most...
...root of the widespread human uselessness that we mistakenly ascribe to automation, we must look into a vast cultural chasm that separates the successfully employed from the so called unemployable ... Although city dwellers, these "unemployables" have the characteristics of the preurban, prefactory villager of the agrarian age." Asbell's themes deserve thoughtful, thorough treatment. It is a shame they are developed with so little insight or discipline in The New Improved American...
Mitchell had lowered himself to the bottom of the shaft by means of a rope and pulley tied around his midsection. As he attempted to raise himself back to the opening of the chasm, he became stuck...
First estimate of the temperature of the water in which Mitchell was continually bathed was 31 degrees. Rescue workers said it would probably take them two days to widen the chasm so the Mitchell's body can be removed...