Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget is not likely to be balanced by the New Deal or by a successor administration for a long time to come. Corollary of this (not of course believed by the President) is that the U. S. debt will never be paid off, and that until some drastic event-such as wild inflation-changes public opinion, the U. S. will not again attempt to live within its means...
Taxes. "It would be unwise . . . to impose drastic new taxes. . . . I think we might safely consider moderate tax increases which would approximately meet the increased expenditures on [national defense...
WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt's attack on "tweedle-dum" Democrats, delivered at the $100-a-plate Jackson Day Dinner last night, infuriated party conservatives who predicted tonight, that it will increase and solidify Congressional opposition to drastic New Deal reforms...
...Germany on the battlefield only 20 years before, but nothing so terrified the world as the ruthless, methodical, Nazi-directed events which during late summer and early autumn threatened a world war over Czechoslovakia. When without loss of blood he reduced Czechoslovakia to a German puppet state, forced a drastic revision of Europe's defensive alliances, and won a free hand for himself in Eastern Europe by getting a "hands-off" promise from powerful Britain (and later France), Adolf Hitler without doubt became 1938's Man of the Year...
...other hand, if Boss Stalin has at last concluded that Nikolai Yezhov's drastic thinning of the top-rank Soviet administrators, generals and diplomats was itself a peculiarly subtle kind of sabotage. then Comrade Yezhov's removal last week was the beginning of his end. Every previous Commissar of Internal Affairs has eventually fallen victim to his successor...