Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hayakawa, who is the third new president in 27 months, will need a profound understanding of behavior in particular if he is to deal effectively with the convulsed San Francisco campus. Students have been beaten, buildings occupied, fires started, and stink bombs thrown; plainclothes and uniformed police were everywhere. Even the faculty seemed hopelessly divided...
From there it was a matter of getting the purloined rocket to Moscow. To the profound embarrassment of the Bonn government, that proved to be the simplest part of the whole caper. The spies took the Sidewinder apart, wrapped it in packages and sent the pieces on the next commercial airliner going to the Soviet Union-via ordinary postal air freight. The cost...
Racial tension and student involvement in education are profound issues. We must listen to students and not again make the unforgiveable mistake of the late 1950's when some scholars, well worth their salt, watched from a safe distance the changing world of the South and chose to focus on the least significant topic of the time, the psychodynamics of courageous civil rights workers. Thomas J. Cottle Assistant Professor of Social Relations
...throw something at the house." He and Eunice put it back in its proper place. "Now," he says, "it's there above the door every day, and nothing's happened." The once well-manicured lawn has been turned into a badminton court, to the Gallic gardeners' profound dismay. The residence's ornate furniture has either been shoved aside or put in storage. The walls are now covered with paintings by Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns and Georgia O'Keeffe, plus a collection of Indians by George Catlin and Roy Lichtenstein's pop portrait of George...
...meet Harper's deadline. Then another layer is peeled off: And then with another fear, conservative was this fear, he [Mailer] looked into his reluctance to lose even the America he had had, that insane war-mongering technology with its smog, its super-highways, its experts and its profound dishonesty ... he was tired of hearing of Negro rights and Black power--every Black riot was washing him loose with the rest, pushing him to that point where he would have to throw his vote in with revolution--what a tedious perspective of prisons and law courts and worse ... No, exile...