Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...utility room, where they remained in hiding. Yael started to cry. In order to keep her daughter quiet, Semadar clamped her hand over her mouth, very hard. It is believed that she inadvertently suffocated the child. When the story was published, it drove the entire nation into profound mourning. There was Israel's history in a single incident: the nation continually at war; the nation as mother protecting her children; the nation unwittingly suffocating her young for the wars in which it is caught...
...They like stability. Do you find yourself returning to the same all in a public bathroom you happen to frequent? How about a certain desk you like to work at on this floor? Even the most liberal of people are victims of this element of conservatism in human nature. --Profound Scholar...
...economists and financiers, corporate chiefs and small businessmen, high-rolling investors and penny-watching savers, 1981 has been a year of turbulence and profound change. A new Administration pushed through Congress a radical policy that abruptly discarded doctrines that have dominated economic thinking since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Americans dramatically changed the way they save their money. Corporations went on an unprecedented binge of billion-dollar mergers. And although business in general was anemic, dynamic young companies parlayed technological innovations into products that promise to improve the efficiency of offices, factories and homes...
When TIME Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers returned to Europe last spring after a four-year absence, he was struck by the profound changes in European attitudes toward the Atlantic Alliance and the U.S. Growing numbers of people, mostly young, were protesting the deployment of new U.S. missiles on European soil and voicing their concern about the mounting hostility between the two superpowers. Rademaekers talked with idealistic youths in and out of the peace movements; with members of the postwar generation coming to positions of influence in business, politics and teaching; and with government leaders who were apprehensive about the drift...
Simple demonstrations can illustrate profound concepts in physics, Nobel-prize winning physicist Edward M. Purcell--who called the overhead projector "the greatest invention since chalk"--told a small crowd in the Science Center yesterday...