Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incredible that a people with such profound Christian faith, with its glorious history, with the oldest parliamentary tradition of the Continent, would join in a hymn of hatred and willingly submit to the blood lust and brigandage of tyranny. No man can love God and hate his brother. No one who hates his brother can be a faithful follower of the gentle Christ...
...sponsored the use of penicillin on more than 1,000 syphilitics at all stages of the disease. Doses ranged up to 4,000,000 units per patient. On the basis of these cases, Dr. Joseph Earle Moore told the Association of American Physicians (see p. 44): "Penicillin has a profound immediate effect on syphilis of all types, early or late." He cautioned them that it may be years before anyone can say whether the drug actually cures late stages of the disease...
...office came alive. Along the cavernous halls of the sprawling ten-winged Navy Building, up & down the corridors of the Navy Annex across the Potomac, through all the temporary Navy buildings cluttering the Mall, boomed the taut voice of Under Secretary James V. Forrestal: It is with profound regret that I announce to the naval service the death of the Secretary of the Navy...
John Curtin, homespun Prime Minister of Australia, on his first trip to the U.S. (TIME, April 24), did first things first at his first Washington press conference: he transmitted to "the government and the people of the U.S. . . . the profound gratitude of the Australian people for the assistance that has been rendered them." After the formalities, "Honest Jack" went for a stroll in Lafayette Park, found that he was being followed, soon found the two FBI men good company...
...simple reason. A single profound regret. That's right...