Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of those currents flow from the two superpowers who have guided Europe's destiny since the end of World War II. With Viet Nam out of the way at last, a measured American recessional resumes with negotiations on trade and troop reductions that may well have a profound-and perhaps traumatic -effect on both Western European prosperity and security. At the same time, the old U.S.European "Atlantic community" is rapidly evolving into a spirited international rivalry. While the U.S. obviously remains vastly stronger, and Western Europe is still far from a unified world power, the new sense...
Walker cooled down. Stoughton went home and pondered it all. He decided he had been an intruder. So he returned to his office near midnight and typed out a profound apology to Nixon. He laid it on Walker's desk...
EVER SINCE EVE sprang, as we are told, from Adam's rib, the nature of female sexuality has been a subject of profound puzzlement. Seemingly more complex and less consistent in her sexual response than man, woman has been encouraged to accept a number of distorting and often disparaging myths regarding the function of her own body. Woman is naturally less orgasmic than man, the story goes, because she is simply a less sexual animal, or because she is simply a less sexual animal, or because she finds her ultimate fulfillment in pregnancy and childrearing rather than copulation...
...been our principal Law writer since 1968. "One of the Law section's goals," says Ferrer, "is to show how people's day-to-day lives may be affected by even subtle changes in legal practice. In the case of due process, the effects seem to be profound...
...Pacino's virtuosity rests upon a profound insight: that Richard is primarily an actor himself. Deprived of the gift of normal humanity, the crippled killer role-plays with savage, self-mocking ingenuity at the parts other men confidently assume: seductive lover, charismatic leader, gallant warrior. In Pacino's conception, Richard's ultimate triumph is not to become King but to put on the whole world. His ultimate tragedy is that he cannot deceive himself. But with what energy - with what charm, with what venom - does Pacino stretch Richard toward his illusions, like a Pirandello character trying...