Word: deepening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel that the club has always beeninclusive, in terms of gender and race," Wilsonsaid. "But words carry a lot of impact, and I feelthat this semantic change will deepen theimpression that the club is concerned with women'sissues on the campus...
...certain levels, the U.S. is a dangerously splintered and tribal country. America's historically indiscriminate embrace has depended on economic opportunity to make the whole enterprise (The Dream) function. Obviously, angers and abrasions deepen when many are competing for fewer jobs. In such an atmosphere, television acts often as a universalizing, mediating influence. It becomes a kind of third eye, however myopic on occasion, or however silly. By telling stories as it does (however skewed its critics, like Quayle, may think the stories are), television may militate against fanaticism and fantasies of revenge. The medium's demographic gyroscopes almost inevitably...
...They have as much -- or more -- to do with our search for identity in the U.S. as they do with our connection to that distant continent. An African American is, after all, an American. And in any case, what we choose to call ourselves does nothing, by itself, to deepen our understanding of what Africa and Africans are truly like. Many of us remake the past to suit the needs of the present, imagining that we are all descended from African kings and queens or that the land our forebears left behind was some kind of earthly paradise...
...this I even foresee a way of saving the world from all global threats to mankind. I do think that no more technical tricks or systemic measures could be created capable of preventing these threats. Certain changes of the human mentality are necessary in order to deepen the feeling of global responsibility. The renewal of global responsibility is not thinkable without a certain respect for a higher principle above my own personal existence...
Then matters darken and deepen. March, harassed by Gestapo thugs, finds documents showing that Buhler was present at a high-level conference at Wannsee on Jan. 20, 1942. Another who attended was Adolf Eichmann. The meeting dealt with a concept March has never heard mentioned: "the final solution of * the Jewish question" and the planning of death camps. In shock he takes the papers and, with the Gestapo close behind, commandeers a car in a desperate run to the Swiss border...