Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...primitive and profound thing! Only pilots truly had it, but the entire world responded, and no one knew its name...
...Right Stuff: that was the name we had been groping for. The phrase summarized the primitive and profound quality sensed beneath the space program's propaganda and the sometimes sleazy manipulations. It was, of course, Tom Wolfe who carefully defined a vague vernacular term and blazoned it as the title of his gloriously intelligent, funny and, above all, romantic bestseller "about the psychology of flying and the status competition among pilots." One suspects Wolfe's phrase is now poised for an even deeper and broader penetration into the common consciousness. For The Right Stuff, which many people thought...
Mather resident Miles Chang '84 said "If [Jones] comes here twice there won't be a profound effect" on House residents and life...
...morning of April 17, 1975, that wish was fulfilled as the triumphant Khmer Rouge army marched into Phnom Penh. Lien's family joined townspeople in cheering and waving white cloths to welcome them. Lien's brother, Ty, who was 11 at the time, felt profound relief that be would not have to become a soldier and fight when he grew up. The euphoric citizens believed that the country could now look forward to peace and economic justice...
...will clash with the capital needs of private industry to keep interest rates high. The outcome may not be another recession but a continuation of what Feldstein called "the lopsided recovery," an expansion driven by consumption and Government spending that has an uneven impact on the economy and produces profound structural changes...