Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colleagues in the university," the physicist said, "the scientist tends to seem more a man from another planet, a creature uttering profound but incomprehensible truths, or a technician scattering antibiotics with one hand and atomic bombs with the other...
...subway stations, thrusting out his hand to the mystified citizens. Estes Kefaurer seemed about to enter the preferential primaries in the Moscow oblast. One Sunday. The Keef toured Moscow's churches delivered a speech at the Evangelical Baptists' Church. Afterwards. The Keef made one of the profound observations for which he is noted. Said he: "If the Soviets continue relaxing religious repression. I think there will be a great increase in religious observance...
Unchanging Instrument. He has a profound respect for the federal judiciary. He has tried case after case before Southern federal judges, whose convictions on the subject of segregation he knows to be diametrically opposed to his own. "And they believe what they believe just as hard as I believe what I believe." In all those cases, before all those judges, Marshall remembers only one judge who was, in his opinion, unfair and discourteous...
...Loved Redheads (Lopert; United Artists), a droll British legpull, poses a profound question: Can a comfortably married man - in this case, a slightly stuffy peer with a fine future in the Foreign Office - pull the sheets over his wife's eyes by carrying on with a string of mistresses, and live happily for 30-odd years in his two worlds? Answer: rather...
...scene: a heap of empty sacks in the wine cellar. The man: her father's steward. "Time passed. She heard the drops clicking rhythmically from a spigot. The smell of wine, the scent of burlap, the pungent scent of Olimpio-they wove a dark separate world, safe, secret, profound." How profound or how secret Beatrice's new world really was is something for historians to argue about. But safe it clearly was not. Less than two years later, while a great crowd of Romans looked on, she laid her lovely head on a chopping block...