Word: chasms
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...Year in year out, it keeps its appeal in literature's most competitive, most unpredictable market. For children, as an editor of juveniles noted recently, "are the most difficult of all readers to write for . . . The editor's real job is to help the writer bridge the chasm between the child's world...
Nehru, though neutral and intending to remain so, insisted that there were merely "differences of approach" between India and the U.S., certainly "no basic chasm." Nixon agreed, praising India's belief in "freedom of speech and religion, justice under law and dedication to peace." He would tell Americans when he got home, said Nixon, that any impression that India leans towards Communism is "completely erroneous." All in all, said Jawaharlal Nehru, Nixon's five-day stay in India was "a very good thing...
...back; the second world war was the second. President Lowell, himself an honorary member of Fly, had long considered the club system undemocratic. "A club is useless," he once wrote, "unless you can keep somebody out." With the Harkness millions, Lowell saw a way to fill in the social chasm between the Gold Coast of Mt. Auburn street and the less wealthy students in the Yard. At first, the new House plan caused no decrease in club popularity. Men were still allowed to live in "rat houses"--the local boarding houses--and tended to choose those houses where their club...
...even that stopped the spelunkers. After burying Loubens in the chasm, they continued their explorations, found another pothole and lowered themselves through it into the lowest and biggest cave of all, a "cathedral of rock," perhaps 500 yds. long and 400 yds. wide. In a flare of magnesium, the explorers "were confronted with a panorama of rocky coagulations -slender stalactites, suspended like long wisps of straws from the majestic vaults, hanging curtains of stone, and broad, squat, dome-shaped stalagmites, looking like huge mushrooms growing on the yellowish bottom of the cave...
...Over the Chasm. It is not at all certain that the 26 million Italians who vote next fortnight will give Alcide de Gasperi a chance to continue his job. Since 1948 the De Gasperi alliance has held 63% of the seats in Italy's lower house. But in municipal and other contests since, it has showed considerable losses of strength...