Word: rifted
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...produce social justice. . . . Only today I have found a passage in a Christian writer where he recommends his own version of Christianity on the ground that 'only such a faith can outlast the death of old cultures and the birth of new civilizations.' You see the little rift? 'Believe this, not because it is true, but for some other reason.' That's the game...
...Fiumicino, the muddy waters of the Tiber merge with the blue Mediterranean. The town's life seems as sluggish as the river, but beneath the apparent calm there is a deep, turbulent rift which sometimes whirls up like an assault of wind-whipped breakers. That rift is symbolized by the tablet in the city hall commemorating Garibaldi's visit in 1849 (after the Republicans had driven the Pope from Rome), and by the blue & white statue of the Virgin Mary in the church...
...Whisper. Newspapers, after that, were full of stories of a rift between Farley and Roosevelt, who finally summoned Farley to Hyde Park. After dinner they talked...
What had caused the rift? Woodhead and Gross blamed it on "the substantial decline in the stockmarket" which took place while the merger details were being arranged. They might have been more specific without raising any eyebrows. In less than a year, Convair's stock had slipped from a high of 33⅝ to 16¼ points a snare, Lockheed's from 45¼ to 18. The declines simply wiped out the differential on which all the negotiations were based...
...Geneva in a B-17 flew Brigadier General Ralph Snavely, whose wife was in the crashed plane, but for six hours bad weather obscured his approach to the Jungfrau. "Then," said an aide, "it was as if the Lord pushed the clouds away for a few moments." Through a rift they spotted the stricken Dakota, cushioned in the snow. Medical supplies, brandy and food were dropped near a red flag laid out on the glacier. In the next 24 hours, so many packages were dropped that a Swiss plane asked Americans to stop, lest they hit survivors or another plane...