Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forests were going up in smoke. In Toronto last week, Forestry Expert Howard Kennedy reported to Premier George Drew on a 15-month survey of Ontario's timber resources. He told of appalling waste from helter-skelter cutting, which left many a fallen tree to rot. Unless something drastic is done, said Expert Kennedy, Ontario's lumber industry "will continue to diminish in importance to such an extent that before 25 years it will be classed as a minor industry...
...Lawrence's left eye. Some of the tissues inside the Mayor's eye were torn. Like a welder with a torch, the surgeon thrust his needle into the back of the eyeball, heated the damaged tissues and joined them together again. The chances were good that the drastic operation would save the Mayor's eyesight...
...whole painfully erected concept of fashion was tumbling down so fast that whole generations of window dummies were beginning to look selfconscious. The fashion world was engaged in a furious "circular advance-back to lines from which it had marched after World War I. It was a counterrevolution as drastic as a full-scale revival of the 1914 Pierce-Arrow, the buttonhook and the mustache cup. The summer's furore over longer hemlines was nothing but a skirmish. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, imperious oracles of the dressmakers, sounded the call. Unabashed, they now cried that what...
Last week, after prophesying the most drastic style changes in a decade, the fashion magazines swept on to the crucial task of their year: rushing the news, sketches and pictures from the Paris and New York openings into print for their big fall numbers. Queenly Edna Woolman Chase, 70-year-old editor-in-chief of Vogue, bustled home from a quick inspection of her revived British and French editions. Pert Carmel Snow, 56, editor of Harper's Bazaar, was doing front-line duty in Paris. Both were ecstatic about derrieres, guepieres (little waist corsets), and a French designer...
...about so the congregation can relax." In fact, said 27-year-old Rev. Harmon H. Bro of the Christian Church of Lanark, Ill., his church's 100 members were so relaxed that only about 30 attended services regularly, and church revenue was steadily declining. "This calls for a drastic step," he added. "The only thing I can think of is to set an example...