Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the evidence piled up that the armchair strategists, not the Navy, were behind the times-for the Navy has turned the corner while its critics still call for the corner to be turned. A profound reorganization of the Navy high command is under way-and the men coming up are airmen. Navy thinking recognizes clearly that sea power is in transition again, a transition as great and as clearly marked as that of a century ago, when steam revolutionized blue-water warfare. Pearl Harbor ended an epoch in naval history-an end to which the sinking of H.M.S...
Relations with Britain starts with three frank assumptions: i) that the United Nations will win the war; 2) that in the post-war world the center of gravity of all military and economic power will rest in the U.S.; 3) that a peaceful world cannot be attained without "profound collaboration" between the U.S. and Britain...
...CABLED DISPATCH OF ROBERT SHERROD (TIME, APRIL 6) HAS STIRRED ME DEEPLY AND I WISH TO EXPRESS MY PROFOUND GRATITUDE. YOU MAY BE CERTAIN THAT MY FEELINGS ARE SHARED BY ALL NETHERLANDERS, NOT IN THE LEAST BECAUSE SHERROD HAS SO WELL RENDERED WHAT LIVES...
...tell himself that he did not get to his present place from having been, like Himmler or Ribbentrop, a product of Nazi politics, thrown suddenly into jobs where all the emphasis was on ruthlessness or adroitness rather than craftsmanship. British and U.S. Navymen consider him an able officer, profound rather than brilliant, a deep-water seaman and organizer rather than a technical expert. He is the German nation's living link with the proud traditions of bearded old Alfred von Tirpitz, father of the blue-water Navy...
...inevitable sequel, the Japanese air attack on the Australian mainland (see p. 16). But it had happened dizzily fast. Seeing it coming and feeling the crunch of its presence were two different things. Sweat poured from the national pores; and beneath the sweat there was a sudden profound shift in the nation's war thinking, a lurching adjustment to the fact that the waking nightmare was no dream...