Word: chasms
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...Republican outlook in Idaho, where Senator Henry Dworshak, fresh from his sorry showing in the Army-McCarthy hearings, is being pressed by Glen Taylor, the Progressive Party's 1948 candidate for Vice President, who has yodeled his campaign message in the state's every nook and chasm...
...name to every politician who marches under the Republican banner, however, Mr. Eisenhower has picked up some rather seedy traveling companions. The last two years have shown that there is more stretch in the name Eisenhower than in most, but it can't begin to cross the ideological chasm that separates Clifford Case from Joe Meek...
...thundering anticlimax. Yet the mind that formed them, the context in which they are set down and the view of man that lies behind them, all compel utmost attention from Americans, who themselves are now haunted by the feeling that they are precariously hanging on above a menacing chasm of history...
Until he reached middle age, he persisted in his favorite sport of mountain climbing. Then one day, as he was descending a dangerous peak, his rope jammed, and he went plunging downward to dangle helplessly over a deep chasm. "For 20 minutes I could not move," Alcide de Gasped recalled later. "Then I swung over to a ridge and was safe. Well, I was 54 then, and I decided I had better give up climbing. But looking back, it had been a good school for political fighting...
...road that separates the girls from the boys and the rest of the Middlebury campus is not as wide as the Common between Radcliffe and Harvard, but it might just as well be. Academically and socially it is a chasm...