Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least two Harvard construction projects are in danger of not getting the Federal support they expected, as a result of drastic cuts in President Johnson's new budget...
Survival Insight. Logotherapy proposes few set rules for the psychiatrist. Dr. Frankl does not even exclude combining it with the most drastic physical treatments, when he thinks that nothing else will help. He takes pride in having introduced guaiphenesin, which he calls the first widely used tranquilizer, in 1952; he also uses electric shock, still a standard treatment in some cases of depression...
...million students at the least. It was a disturbing challenge. Why, indeed, is there no massive student protest of the war? The CRIMSON poll suggests that a significant number of seniors were considering either leaving the country or going to jail in order to avoid induction. These are pretty drastic acts. The poll also showed that 94 per cent of the sample was against the present U.S. policy in Vietnam. But why are Harvard anti-war demonstrations so meager, so self-conscious, so temperate...
Accurately gauging the nation's mood, Johnson offered no drastic departures in philosophy, no major policy shifts, in his fifth State of the Union speech. Confronted by a Congress that is more in the mood for retrenchment than revolution, he concluded that the most prudent possible strategy would be to avoid asking for any expensive new programs but to maintain the thrust of the old ones. "We've got to keep the momentum," he told aides beforehand...
...refusing to agree to any specific new steps to bolster the dollar. Officials in both London and Tokyo expressed alarm over the possibility that the Administration may ask Congress to enact some form of border taxes to offset those imposed by Common Market countries. Clearly, Johnson's unexpectedly drastic blow at the U.S. payments deficit had strained the intricate fabric of international arrangements for world trade. It will take cool heads and delicate negotiations to avoid some serious rips...