Word: chasms
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...past year there has been an increasingly discernable split in the British Labor Party; last week, as was virtually inevitable, the split widened into a chasm. The annual Party conference shoved unilateralism into the protesting, mouths of its Parliamentary leaders, and voted a policy which if carried out by a Labour Government would mean Britain's withdrawal from NATO...
Murtaugh lets his starting pitchers try to work themselves out of trouble instead of jerking them at the first long hit, loyally sticks to the same, starting lineup. Says Pirates' General Manager Joe L. Brown, son of the chasm-mouthed comedian: "Dan never pushes the panic button." With little raw power in his lineup, Murtaugh has revived an oldfashioned, single-slapping brand of baseball, leniently lets his players flash the sign for the hit-and-run whenever they see a chance. "Murtaugh lets us use our own judgment," says Hoak, "until it proves to be bad judgment. For instance...
...Indianapolis to announce, obliquely, that he was. A concerted effort was made to add Texas and Oklahoma to the Western bloc (271 delegate votes), and thus convert Johnson into a certified Westerner. It failed. (If some eager expansionists had their way, the West would begin somewhere around Ausable Chasm...
...sleeping with her husband and her other lover so Jacques--soft, revolting Jacques--won't lose interest. Jacques cannot be really interested, because the money she thinks her greatest charm squashes his masculine ego. He covets an impoverished cigarette girl. All the time that Kautner emphasizes this self-made chasm, however, he seems to suggest that deceptions actually are inherent to allure. Hence the comedy--thus the tragedy...
...about the most interesting single feature of the ocean bottom. According to the original theory of continental drift, which was presented by German Geologist Alfred Wegener in 1920, the ridge was made of material left behind when North and South America broke away from Europe and Africa, and the chasm between them widened to form the Atlantic. The ridge reflects the shape of the shores on both sides of it, and it emphasizes the remarkable fact that if the New World were pushed eastward, it would fit with some precision into the western shore of the Old World...