Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belligerency in World War II may still be dubious. But to a U.S. engaged in global war it was reassurance that the power of a trustworthy friend would embrace half the South American continent. In a message to President Vargas, President Roosevelt said: "I express to Your Excellency the profound emotion with which [Brazil's] courageous action has been received in this country. ... It adds power and strength, moral and material, to the armies of liberty...
Nahas and Makram, No. 1 and No. 2 men in the Wafd Party which dominates Egypt, had loved each other for 20 years. The cause of their quarrel was profound. Shrewd, 66-year-old Nahas felt that he needed to concentrate authority in one hand-his own-to get his country through the impending crisis. So he took back from Finance Minister Makram certain powers which he had once bestowed. Makram, hurt, became so obstreperous that Nahas kicked...
There can be nothing but praise for the directors of this picture. When human tragedy and the profound transformation of total war which is wrought upon an entire nation can be interpreted so accurately and humanly as in "Mrs. Miniver," moviedom can well afford to pat itself on the back...
...This latest assault on human freedom is, in a profound sense, a searching test for nations and for individuals. There is no surer way for men and for nations to show themselves unworthy of liberty than, by supine submission and refusal to fight, to render more difficult the task of those who are fighting for the preservation of human freedom. There is no surer way for men and for nations to show themselves worthy of liberty than to fight for its preservation, in any way that is open to them, against those who would destroy...
British and U.S. correspondents, trying to seize in words the feeling of the Red soldier and the Red Army, often sense a profound simplicity, a directness which is likely to seem spurious to western readers. But the feeling is there...