Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackson's Presidency was "a series of battles in which he exhibited the same qualities that had distinguished his military career. In his own view he fought for the people and the Union as before he had battled for the Republic." He left a profound impress on the office of the Presidency, but it was one of his own reckless and insurgent personality, not that of his incidental profession...
...Reich who got in his way, including Adolf Hitler, but he cannot purge the Allied armies now squeezing him on the east and west. What can he do? The answer is: hold out as long as possible, then go underground. As the policeman of occupied Europe, Himmler made a profound study of the general operations and detailed techniques of the European undergrounds. Why not put the information to good...
Friends & Enemies. Most profound is the sharp increase in hatred of Germans. Perhaps Americans at home still look to ward Japan with deeper hatred, but front line troops in Europe turn their hate to ward the Reich, now that they have struggled with it in bitter combat. That sharpening of hatred is accompanied by increasing concern over what to do with Germany, and by a fellow feeling for the Russian Army, which still kills the most Germans...
...Challenge. Today, says Philosopher Perry, the faith of our fathers has been challenged in every particular. History has been rewritten. Instead of a picture of heroic achievement it has become a study of capitalism in America-in which, if capitalism was questioned, so was Americanism. The profound Christianity of the early Americans has waned: not only are more Americans without religious adherence, but there is also a wavering and thinning of faith among church members. Moreover, it is now argued that human affairs are governed by passions, blind drives, fears or needs, "while rational purposes, moral codes, and philosophies...
...these people with the immortals, or their poised arrogance in regard to such issues as the contemptible political machine in Boston, or their stylish language, or their blue-blooded ugliness was the more impressive. ... It was not, I concluded, that what they said and the judgments they passed were [profound] . . . but that the manner of these pilgrims' heirs was so fearless and direct that one was not struck with their fatuity...