Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dismaying, of course; symbolic too. The move was calculated and premeditated, yet still drastic. While the clock cannot be turned back, perhaps, it need not be set ahead so suddenly. A ten-cent minimum would tax the non-coffee drinking philosophers. But 15 cents goes too far; the Bick is, after all, a place for radical talking but moderate deeds...
...Diabolic" Plots. The massacre that never happened was to remain the mystery of the week. Only the day before the emergency was declared, Nyasaland's Governor, Sir Robert Armitage, had flatly stated that no such drastic action would be needed. Now Sir Robert had suddenly taken a stand that seemed contrary to everything that this elegant, liberal, and somewhat indecisive civil servant had ever stood for. He had helped speed
...weeks ago De Gaulle quietly issued a series of drastic decrees placing on the army's shoulders full responsibility for preparedness against atomic attack and "subversive ideological war." Under these decrees, if the President officially declares a "state of alert," every citizen of France between 17 and 60 automatically becomes subject to mobilization and military justice. The task assigned to each individual -military, civil defense or industrial-would be determined by army-run "zones of defense," each capable of carrying on even if communication with Paris or all other zones...
...Immediate and drastic steps to ban student cars completely from Cambridge...
...article on General Electric and Ralph Cordiner was most interesting and well presented. However, Mr. Cordiner's ideas on decentralization have been carried out with such expediency in the Schenectady area that hundreds of workers have found themselves stranded in an area ill-prepared for such drastic changes...