Word: profoundity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of the Administration did declare that 'we are being savaged on the fairness issue' and that the President should mount a campaign to convince the public of how unjust it was to call his government unfair. But this President is too smart and not profound enough for that. He never appears to feel savaged. When he seems to savage himself, it is by saying something to blithely beside the point that thinking persons are nonplussed...
Taken at face value, however, the medals might just indicate a different, more significant problem--that the Army actually needed 8612 acts of heroism to pull off a project about as difficult as invading Martha's Vine-yard. The implications for national security are profound and troubling indeed when 7000 tough guys with helicopters and machine guns--and no nagging world press at their heels--needed thousands of acts of valor to defeat a motley crew of Cuban "construction workers" and Third World revolutionaries...
...then handed me an unsealed envelope. I opened it and read the single typed page it contained. "Dear Al," it began, "It is with the most profound regret that I accept your letter of resignation." The President was accepting a letter of resignation that I had not submitted...
...bloodstream is directly affected by the richness of the diet. Anybody who takes the results seriously may never be able to look at an egg or a steak the same way again. For what the study found, after ten years of research costing $150 million, promises to have a profound impact on how Americans eat and watch their health. Among the conclusions...
...days after John Kennedy's election in 1960, Old Joe paced his apartment on Park Avenue in green slippers and bathrobe, trying to sound profound on being the father of a President. He was having a terrible time. So he switched the subject to Billy Graham, who had just played golf with the President-elect,down in Palm Beach and proclaimed to the press that "the Bible teaches that we 'are to pray for those in authority...