Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day, as a private citizen, De Gaulle spoke more explicitly to a packed square before Strasbourg's City Hall. He cried: "It is time that a grouping or rally [rassemblement] of the French people is organized, which, within the legal framework, will be able to cause ... the profound reform of the state...
...well-barbered, satiric Buddha, he squats in his forest of steel-&-concrete trees, grinning them such a grin as they have seldom had to bear. It is certainly a grin as wide as Shaw's, if less thoughtful-and quite as bitter as Swift's, if less profound...
...arrival of the atomic age has given the layman a profound respect for science, if any symbolic meaning can be attached to a recent incident on Quincy Street...
...Nothing but an early and profound change in the attitude of the British people toward the problem of national survival can prevent the present crisis from becoming a steady slide into conditions of poverty unknown in the Western world in modern times...
...That profound thinker, Henry Wallace, darling of the totalitarian liberals,* is wont to contrast political democracy in the U.S. with the "economic democracy" of the Soviet Union...