Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doenitz knew the British well, and he had profound contempt for them at the war's start. In the last war, after service on a cruiser in the Mediterranean, he was transferred to U-boats, earned his own command. His UB-68 was sunk by the British off Malta in 1918. Rescued, Doenitz was taken to England as a prisoner of war. There he so successfully feigned mental illness that his captors kept him comfortably in a sanatorium...
...profound distances between places and between minds are still the same; only superimposed on them are the new adjacencies of air travel, the new omnipresent communications as instantaneous as light itself...
...into giving him what he wants. Sir Thomas, unlike most maestros, seldom bothers to beat time-he seems able to infect musicians with the desired momentum. But always he is about the subtle business of communicating to the orchestra, by the contortions of his face and form, his own profound knowledge of the score, his emotional temperature, from the tender to the explosive, and his exquisite musical taste. Beecham is widely regarded among musicians as an unparalleled interpreter of Mozart and Haydn in particular, and as a conductor, in general, of the order of Toscanini and Koussevitzky...
...Wells, popular historian of the past and of the future: "I have a profound conviction that the newspaper is as dead as mutton and that it will never come back. When we want to know the time we do not consult the newspaper. We ring up a charming young lady called 'Time.' Shall we be able, when things get going again, to dial 'News' and shall we not listen then to a summary of what has been happening in the last two or three hours? It seems to me a much more possible and much more...
Eight years in London had a profound effect on the younger Morgan. They made him a conservative banker, interested in doing a safe deposit and security business. And they gave him an undying loyalty to England...