Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outraged by comics that piously headline their pages "Obey the Law" while dripping with murder by meat cleavers, quicklime, axes and buzz saws, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took drastic action. It passed an ordinance providing a $500 fine or a six-month jail term for selling crime comics to children under 18. The law will cover only the rural areas of the county, but the legislature will be asked to make the ban statewide...
...most Britons, war brought a drastic change to Sir Archibald McIndoe (rhymes with lackin' dough). He gave up his rich Harley Street practice to head the R.A.F.'s plastic surgery program...
...progress over a period of five months. The painting began with a reasonably naturalistic and (for Matisse) timid sketch from a model. Every subsequent stage looks as complete as the final one, though not even the last version seems "finished"-a Matisse seldom does. In spite of the drastic changes Matisse made as he went along, every version brought his original conception more boldly into focus. His admirers might have accepted any of the early versions as a masterpiece, but not Matisse himself...
...eliminating special "blooming" mills (where steel is rolled in clothes-wringer-like machines) and the conveyer tables to feed them, continuous casting will make a drastic cut in the cost of every ton of steel produced. Eventually, it may also decentralize the industry, giving each region its own steel mills, for the machines are relatively cheap to build, and easy to house...
Editor Brucker's remedy for the U.S. editorial page would probably be too drastic for many publishers: newspapers must break "the habit . . . of attaching themselves to one of the major political parties. This is a hangover from the days when there were many papers, each speaking for a particular faction. Today, when we have few papers, it is their obligation not to be a Dr. Goebbels for any group . . . Our journalistic Jeremiahs must breathe more hellfire and damnation than ever. Only they need to get all the facts, and not just some of them, first...