Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough on such big points, Chairman Connally is hampered by a vast lack of erudition. He has no real foreign policy himself; he has not attempted to think his way through the problem of the Polish frontiers; the problem of Finland, of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; he has no profound ideas about the Balkans or Eastern Europe or the Near East or China. In general he seems content to take whatever proposals the White House and the State Department send down, amend them to suit the Senate's temper that week, and pass them...
...sire of many a U.S. intellectual who grew up to be a technocrat. The initiated will remember, too, that Veblen has been praised and damned as the prophet of the New Deal. His influence on Rexford Guy Tugwell, George Soule, Stuart Chase and other New Deal economists has been profound. Anti-New Dealer Edgar M. Queeny (The Spirit of Enterprise), president of the Monsanto Chemical Co., has even gone so far as to make Veblen the source of practically all that is evil in modern America...
Scientific minds have often sought an answer to the profound question: "Why is Scuttlebutt the second most popular pastime of military men?" (Don't get nosey, bud, by asking what's first.) As yet, this remains a moot question; no satisfactory solution has been offered...
...place in America." He gave the professional actors a rest and let the Brooklynites speak for themselves. He was about as successful as anyone could be at trying to seize such a slippery phenomenon. Star of the program was an unreconstructed drugstore-lunch-counterman, who spoke his mind in profound Brooklynese regarding some of his more rugged customers...
...against southeastern Europe. If the Straits were opened to military traffic into the Black Sea, Russia's supply line would be smoothed and shortened. But the U.S. and Britain had also taken on an enormous responsibility. A German attack on Turkey, even if only temporarily successful, could have profound effects on Allied prestige in all Europe...