Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientists can explain the stunning benefits to society from the space race in terms of technology. The larger meaning is much more profound. If John Kennedy, who made the decisions to push beyond earth, were around today, he would probably talk about poetry and history-a shining challenge, a new frontier...
...three principles were in evidence-and sometimes in conflict. The 85,000 Soviet troops "invited" into Afghanistan a year ago are hunkered down for a long occupation despite the profound damage that the invasion did to relations with the West and the Third World. In conciliatory meetings with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany last summer and with Senator Charles Percy near year's end, Brezhnev said that he was willing to call a truce in the new cold war and make a fresh start...
...States toward the Soviet Union would be directly and very adversely affected by any Soviet use of force in Poland." Allen declared that the consequences of a Soviet invasion of Poland "could border on wrecking relations [with the U.S.] for a long time. Business as usual after such a profound event could not easily be restored...
...were reported to be on full alert. East bloc propaganda guns were blazing, repetitively comparing events in Poland with those that touched off the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was a measure of understatement in the urgent message of the Polish party: "All Poles are engulfed by profound anxiety...
...statement from Alain Peyrefitte, the French Minister of Justice, Riesman was hailed as "a great thinker." The statement concludes: "He has had a profound influence on the academic world. More than anyone else, he has contributed to the dissemination of Tocqueville's philosophy...