Word: chasms
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Deepest of Tsahai's home contentments was the escape from the rigid isolation of the pink-skinned world: from teachers who taught her Christian precepts, but professed no sisterly love; from girls who smiled at her with their thin buttonhole lips, as across a chasm; from visitors whose English, French or German phrases she understood, but whose meanings she could only ponder. Because her skin was brown and because she was royalty, there had never been any expansion in the invisible walls which closed around her in the pink-skinned world...
...Portalet Fortress, gouged into a narrow chasm-side of the deep Pyrenees, they would read, ponder documents, peer out of windows through which-the sun never shines. Twice each day, in solitude, they would be permitted to pace the terrace above the gloomy, turreted fort...
...This ritual they repeated at several other large rocks. Many slippery smaller rocks were in their way. And the sea burst its spray upon them. They all got their feet wet. And when they reached a very high point on the coast, one slipped and fell down a deep chasm into the sea, and was drowned...
Like a cry for help and its echo from a chasm were statements of the two top U.S. defense officials last week. OPM's William Knudsen in Manhattan said that present defense output of $9 billions annually must be increased to at least $20 billions by next summer. OPACS' Leon Henderson in Washington gloomed, "Soon there will be 2,000,000 more unemployed...
...Atlantic seaboard. When the first 50 tankers went, oilmen tightened their belts by speedups in tanker service, heavier loading, greater use of pipeline and rail. The loss of 100 more tankers would cut the daily intercoastal tanker haul to less than 600,000 bbl. This is a chasm no stopgap methods can bridge...