Word: profound
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...word that so preoccupies Dean Fitch is one of the most ambiguous, and in a way most honorable, words in the French language. In theatrical, military and other circles, merde is not a dirty word by any means, but a form of farewell and best wishes considered far more profound and more affectionate than other, more ordinary phrases. It has the special distinction of being called "the five-letter word." It is also called the mot de Cambronne because General Cam-bronne, when asked to surrender to the British at Waterloo, anticipated America's General McCauliffe by some...
Critics of the blue laws argue that they ignore a profound shift in U.S. living and shopping habits. In an era of full employment, many husbands and wives both hold jobs, find it impractical to shop on weekdays. Moreover, merchants who try to solve .the problem by keeping late weekday hours report that most customers prefer to shop (and invariably spend more) on Sunday, when they can take their time and bring the family. With the exodus to the suburbs and the growth of one-stop shopping centers (TIME, Oct. 15) in outlying areas, families have become accustomed to shopping...
...fine, flaring disrespect for the outside world, coupled with a profound understanding of Georgia and its politics, carried both Talmadges to the governor's mansion. As governor, Herman inherited and refined his father's credo: keep down the cities, hold the Negro to his proper place in God's order. But today, city and Negro are both restless in the boom that is sweeping Georgia from its mountains and red-clay hills to its plains and coast. Cities outpace the struggling counties, the Negro vote leaps upward, cattle are becoming more valuable than cotton, industry outproduces...
...laws to replace the Fascist statutes thrown out by the court. On Segni's promise, the revered Chief Justice fired off a letter to President Giovanni Gronchi withdrawing his resignation. "It is my duty," De Nicola wrote blandly, "to bow to your will with profound devotion...
...notion of the "other-directed" man-but with more affection for America than is usually shown by sociologists. In 1937 Wolfe argued that the standardization of U.S. life resulted from the fact that every American in a fundamental sense is a surveyor: "America has really never yet, in any profound and essential way, been explored-it has rather been surveyed. The first problem of the people who settled in this immense and spatial continent was not to explore it but to 'lay it out'-to find the shortest distance between two points, to get the best and easiest...