Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After giving the matter "profound thought," he got married in 1916 (all of two weeks after meeting pretty Ethel Worts) and gave up poker for bridge. "The thought of life without poker," he remembers, seemed fantastic, "but when I gave it up it was like recovering from leprosy." He is a skillful bridge player - though it is safe to say he has taken in more money drawing cartoons about...
...justice and mercy. We in the United States are not prepared. Too many men despise woman. Too many women despise their servants. Too many white men despise black men. Too many Christians despise Jews. . . . We need not be perfectionists, but we must realize that there must be a profound change in human attitudes...
Till the End of Time. Underneath all the pleasure-bending, elbow-bending and tongue-bending (reflected perhaps-and perhaps not-in increased church attendance) lay a more mature awareness, a profound, bewildered foreboding, a tragic and justified uneasiness, a still more disturbing fatalism. Many Americans assumed that the nation's interracial troubles were barely beginning; that another great depression and another great war were dead certainties; that the next opponent was Russia; that nothing whatever could be done about such matters...
...same profound questions which furrowed the brows of physicists before the war . . . are still with us. The physicist returning from the war has no vast amount of literature to digest. . . because his own dusty files contain virtually the last words written upon the subject...
Five weeks of meetings between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung had been cloaked in profound official silence. But Chungking buzzed with expectation-and hope...