Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yourself in grade school, when you took eager delight in asking your teacher to define "adultery" or "orgasm." This movie is slightly less mature in its earnestness over only marginally dirty words. Or perhaps move up to high school, when even elementary literary explications might have still sounded somewhat profound. Now imagine that elementary, lecturing tone describing what's obvious to you about Mr. Joyce, and you have James Joyce's Women...
Lots of judges out there might fit Reagan's criteria on abortion, school prayer and friendliness to big business. But plenty of them are not good judges capable of reasoning and balancing issues that range from the obscure or trivial or unexpectedly profound. And if Reagan chooses a clown, then he might do well by antiabortion groups, but flop for the country as a whole...
...speak as experts on the medical consequences of the arms race and nuclear war. It is for this effort to educate the world public that IPPNW was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The nuclear arms race is a problem with important political dimensions--but it is also the most profound public health issue of our time...
...grievances aside, the department is not one marked by profound discord, says Grabar...
Egypt suspended negotiations with Israel over the status of Taba, the sliver of beachfront in the Sinai that is claimed by both countries. In Tunis, Bourguiba called in U.S. Ambassador Peter Sebastian and told him of his "profound regret and great astonishment" at the Administration's response. Summing up the reaction by moderate Arabs, one senior Western ^ diplomat in Cairo declared, "The raid is going to leave scars, a lot more than were caused by the attack on the Iraqi reactor...