Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everyone loves my tinsel, my fireworks, all this frivolity that I wear like an iron collar-not my profound, true nature...
...times, always evoking the same response. But one matinee day, nearly half a century ago, as Actress Adams pushed her way through the admiring crowds from the Empire Theater stage door to an electric automobile at the curb, she caught the eye of a small boy. The profound disappointment on his face seemed to tell her: "You're not Peter Pan, or even a boy; you're an actress, and a lady." From that time on, during the run of the play, Maude Adams never again left the theater after a matinee, lest too many little boys grow...
Benevolent Exterior. With his pince-nez and some carefully cultivated propaganda about his being a pianist and a profound student of architecture, Beria brought an air of respectability to the secret police, which had become almost unmentionable, so greatly was it feared. The whole apparatus of the NKVD was reorganized. Thousands were released from the prisons and the story put about that this was Stalin's (and Beria's) clemency, and that the real instigators of the purge had been Yagoda and Yezhov. Beneath this relatively benevolent exterior, Beria turned the NKVD into the most ruthless and extensive...
...weeks later, Soviet Playwright Alexander Korneichuk, wartime foreign minister of the Ukraine dismissed in 1944 on the same charge, was reinstated as Vice Premier. Last week the switch went the full 180 degrees: the Ukraine's Communist Party boss, Leonid Melnikov, a Moscow bureaucrat, was fired for "profound mistakes in the selection of personnel and the carrying out of national policy." Melnikov was charged with having mishandled the situation in the Western Ukraine by bringing Russian Communists into administrative positions, taking a wrong (i.e., strong) line on collectivization and ordering the Russian language to be taught in higher schools...
...moment has now come when we must decide whether to carry on by warfare a struggle for the unification of Korea or whether to pursue this goal by political and other methods . . . It is my profound conviction that . . . acceptance of the armistice is required of the United Nations and the Republic of Korea . . . We would not be justified in prolonging the war, with all the misery that it involves, in the hope of achieving by force the unification of Korea...