Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small Inducement. At Paris, his colleagues in the OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation) proposed nothing so drastic as a complete revamping of the Cripps policy. All they wanted was a little greater-but carefully circumscribed-freedom of currency exchange...
...contained some startling specific proposals which were probably less important than its broad analysis of population prospects. In its analysis, the report punches holes in two myths, one old, one new. The prewar myth was that Britain's birth rate would continue to decline, causing a drastic drop in Britain's population. The postwar myth was that Britain's tight balance of payments position required a drastic reduction of population by emigration ("With world supremacy gone, 40,000,000 people can't live on this little island...
...this argument Protestants have their answer. Replied the weekly Christian Century to America: "The restrictions upon Protestants in Spain are much more drastic and far-reaching than the restrictions upon Roman Catholics in Sweden. But," the Century added thoughtfully, "it is well that the similarities, as far as they go, should be cited ... A vestige of ... medieval theory and practice remains . . . [weaving] a shoddy strand into the fabric of the Protestant argument for religious liberty...
...Drastic measures were being proposed to solve the nation's hottest educational problem-whether Communists and their sympathizers should be barred from U.S. campuses, and if so, by what means. The University of Nebraska had not only barred teachers, but also any textbooks that the Regents might consider subversive. The House Committee on Un-American Activities had called on 107 colleges to send in full lists of their textbooks for investigation. "I suppose this must include the Bible," cracked Wellesley's retiring President Mildred McAfee Horton...
...once that your proposals--apparently to dismiss or censure two professors, and certainly to impose drastic controls on the activities as citizens of all professors--cannot and will not be adopted at Harvard, so long as Harvard remains true to her principles...