Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Mondale's turn came, he pushed aside his prepared text and zeroed in on his opponent's vote in favor of President Reagan's 1981 tax cut. "Of all the measures in modern political history in which the forces of special interests clashed with the profound public interest of the nation, I cannot recall a single instance when the issues were as clear. That would have been a good time for a Democrat to stand up against the special interests and vote...
...deplorable that Idaho Senator James McClure, the chairman of the committee which has jurisdiction over the Interior Department, anticipates no difficulty in confirming the Secretary, in spite of Clark's record and his profound inexperience. The Senate almost never exercises its veto power over appointments, but Clark's nomination is the perfect opportunity. The committee should take Percy's words to heart, even more specifically than they were meant, and never again accept Clark while turning a blind eye to his ignorance...
...lived in Adams House from 1968 to 1974, from when she was two until eight, remembers, "I enjoyed it for the most part." Now a senior in high school, she finds Harvard "just too big" and has applied to smaller colleges, and says that the experience had no profound effects on her or her older brother...
...author displays an intellect profound, searching, inclusive, an artistry profound and subtle in all his works. [He is] as important a writer as Germany possesses...
...situation of animals stirs people in a profound way that is sometimes difficult to explain. Thoreau wrote, "It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or a dog than to any human being." Sometimes the love of animals bespeaks an incapacity for the more complicated business of loving people; mental patients who react to other humans with fear and loathing can develop calm, tender relationships with puppies. Animals are usually perfectly themselves, not the elaborately perverse psychological mysteries that people seem to become. Animals, if not rabid, have a certain emotional reliability. But being...