Word: profoundity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scientific Revolutions offered a fresh way of analyzing the history of scientific discovery. Cohen accepts the essential tenets of Kuhn's revolutionary treatise. Like Kuhn, Cohen rejects the evolutionary or cumulative explanation of the turnover of scientific knowledge in favor of the theory that scientific changes are unpredictable, profound intellectual developments that completely modify the way people think about an area of inquiry...
...testified that she had threatened to leave Von Bulow unless he divorced his wife, an action that would have cut him off from a legacy of more than $14 million. Judge Grande held that to present such evidence in Isles' absence would deprive the Danish- born defendant of his "profound constitutional right" to confront the witness...
...said that in March of 1942 . . . in certain present-day standards of something called 'credibility,' he would have been telling the quote truth unquote. But . . . he would have been telling a profound lie because he and Churchill and Stalin and millions of us mobilized faith and hope in necessity . . . Now, you must not expect people to try to poor-mouth % what it is they are trying to accomplish. Nobody else does it. Why should we in government...
...Cooke's compatriots are so self-critical. Indeed, Crapanzano begins his study by explaining the rift within the white community, which separates the Afrikaners from their neighbors of English descent. So profound is this mutual resentment that many Afrikaners championed Hitler during World War II rather than support what they considered a British cause. Conversely, some English speakers will drive miles out of their way rather than patronize an Afrikaner store...
Researchers are only beginning to fathom the complex biochemical reasons for this effect. Fish, specifically such cold-water species as cod, salmon, sardines and mackerel, contain certain polyunsaturated oils that are found in no other foods and have profound effects on body chemistry. A diet rich in these fats reduces the tendency of blood to clot, much the way that aspirin does; it also helps lower the level of cholesterol in the blood. Both effects could help explain the low rate of heart disease in Eskimos...