Word: profound
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...politics can do a tremendous amount of good for a large number of people," said Robert P. Layne -and thereupon gave up politics. Explaining that he hoped" to do good for far fewer people but on a more profound basis," Layne, 31, announced last week that in June he will quit his job as a Republican senator in the Kentucky legislature to study for the Episcopal priesthood at Virginia Theological Seminary...
...strength of Islam in many cases depends upon imponderable factors of history that are subject to profound change. For black Africa, one of Islam's chief lures is its tolerance of polygamy-a practice sure to wither away with the tribal structure that made it necessary, as it has in much of the Middle East. In the Arab world, the faith that created empires is subsidized by Presidents and dictators partly because it can provide spiritual justification for political ambitions. Egypt, for example, funnels vast sums of money into the propaganda outlets of the Supreme Islamic Council, which praises...
...abroad. Peanuts is translated into a dozen languages, from Danish (in which the title becomes Little Radishes) to Spanish to Japanese. Schulz's theology has even merited a solemn book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, in which Divinity Student Robert Short has found the strip filled with profound Christian understanding (TIME...
...intentions. He seized the heights and beat off attack after attack. Taking command of the entire front, he launched a surprise assault and drove the Anzacs back to the beaches. "Seldom in history," wrote the British official historian, "can the exertions of a single divisional commander have exercised so profound an influence on the fate of a campaign and even the destiny of a nation." Within weeks, Colonel Kemal became a national hero; within a year, he became a general...
...supporting these dictators, you are guarding stability and preventing communism, but you are also suppressing the popular will. The loans of the United States can sustain the present government, but they will not bring the changes that are necessary. Those changes--land reform, mass suffrage, state control--must be profound and substantive; they must be organic; they must come from within Brazil. And unless they come soon, "the dissatisfaction of the masses will erupt in uncontrollable...