Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lila Leeds was being sued for return of a $1,000 engagement ring by an ex-fiance who had been trying, without success, to get either the ring or Lila. At week's end Mitchum's attorney, Jerry Giesler, drove into a tree, suffered broken ribs and "profound shock." Meanwhile, Variety noted that the latest Mitchum movie, RKO's Rachel and the Stranger, was No. 1 at the nation's box offices...
Europe's bankruptcy was caused not merely by World War II but by a far more profound historic change. Miss Ward calls it the end of the 19th Century. That vanished age was essentially a British age. Britannia's vessels ruled the waves, and Britannia's notions of free trade ruled markets and minds. Britannia's notions of the balance of power kept the world in a rough & ready sort of peace. That order came to an end with the 20th Century's world wars, colonial rebellions, and (above all) the rise of U.S. power...
...were abundantly evident within the World Council Assembly. Time and again in Christian history, there have been dramatic reenactments of Pentecost, with dubious enduring spiritual fruitage. It may well be the judgment of history that the Living Spirit was far more effectively at work in the less sensational but profound spiritual unity of this assembly...
...spattered car was greeted with another shower of eggs and tomatoes. Some struck his head and shoulders, splotched his white shirt. Boos drowned out his attempt to speak. Cried Wallace: "The faces I have seen distorted by hatred are of people for whom I have in my heart profound compassion, because most of them have not had enough to eat." The crowd laughed...
Scrawny Turkey. Once he gained fame, Author Caldwell abandoned his narrow, though unusual gift. Prompted perhaps by the party-line critics and earnest sociologists who misread his sordid stories as profound exposures of Southern society,* Caldwell undertook to write "seriously." The result was lamentable: each of his recent novels is more inept than its predecessor, and the latest one is as scrawny a literary turkey as has been hatched...