Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...genuine embarassment, the German exchange student who lives with my family witnessed this scene. Her response was simple and profound: "How can this...
...wiry, scrawny Lee Oswald with a push broom, peeking into girls' lockers when no one's looking." But the Nightmare films are more than a Freddy phenomenon. With sharp humor, a dash of B-movie style and the eerie simplicity of a child's counting rhyme, they tap profound adolescent fears, then exorcise them. It's catharsis on the cheap...
...lobby. The other relationship, which her biographer, Shirley du Boulay, calls "unconsummated, unfulfilled, unresolved," was with a refugee in a home for the dying in east London, where she had gone to work as a newly trained doctor. Saunders is not one to reflect deeply on these obviously profound friendships, other than to say, with an almost dismissive formality, that they "helped me learn the possibility to stay and really look where I saw something of a welcome...
There is more than just sporting interest in the rivalry. Although both countries are working on maglevs, their designs are so fundamentally different that victory for one or the other could have profound implications for a whole area of technological development. Japan Railways Group (JR), the leader in the Japanese development, uses a design that relies on magnets made with superconductors, the extraordinary materials that carry electrical currents without resistance. The West German model, known as the Transrapid and built by a consortium that includes Thyssen Henschel, Messerschmitt, Bolkow-Blohm and Krauss Maffei, uses conventional electromagnets. The West Germans stopped...
...Character, Sheehy makes a hardly novel argument that the characters of each of these six presidential candidates and of Reagan are the result of a single event or individual that had a profound impact on the candidate's development. The devastating injuries which Bob Dole received during his service in World War II have produced his "dark side," his insistence on self-reliance, and his often bitter sense of humor. Jesse Jackson's character and drive were nourished in the subculture of the segregated black South, and his insatiable quest for legitimacy and respect are the product of having been...