Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Home's profound skepticism of Soviet policy led him to challenge Winston Churchill when the Prime Minister praised as an "act of justice" Stalin's promise to respect Poland's borders after the war. "On the contrary," said Home, it was "an act of power," and he was soon proved right. Home constantly reiterated that unless the government grasped the fact that "this country and Russia operate under two different sets of standards, there will stretch before us a long vista of political difficulties, misunderstandings and disillusions...
Slowly at first, and then more quickly, the drums began to throb and the horns to bray. Deep and profound through all of it rolled the resonant bass of the "tambari" (the Royal Drum) which was held by the tribe in an almost religious awe and took the whole skin of a full grown ox to dress each surface. The tambari is the repository of the basic tribal esprit de corps and is held in both reverence and affection...
...wait. If a new rocket engine fails to deliver a few percent of its planned thrust, the payload that it lofts into space must be lightened. Since every ounce is calculated with exquisite care, this means eliminating some piece of equipment, and little can be jettisoned without profound changes in the whole mission...
Frost's distrust of liberalism, which in his poems and letters occasionally made him sound like an outrageous parody of crackerbarrel conservatism, was based on a profound belief in smallness and a conviction that life must be lived on a level deeper than anything within the ken of group action. "Beyond the participation of the politicians and beyond the relief of senates," he wrote eloquently to Untermeyer, "lie our sorrows." But Frost also was aware of how much he had staked on sticking to the caricature personality he had partly invented and partly evolved for himself-the curmudgeonly egocentric...
Back 50 Years? Graham's new crusade was warmly welcomed by most of the city's clergymen. "The effect on Los Angeles," said the Rev. Harold L. Fickett Jr. of the First Baptist Church in suburban Van Nuys, "will be so profound that only an eternity can measure it." But some questioned the crusade's value. Said the Rev. W. B. Key of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church: "I believe he's putting the church back 50 years...