Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last hot wrangle had been over who the gods should be-civilian or military. That debate dissolved when the services said they only wanted the right to sit in. Another debate was over security measures, which were at first so drastic that some Senators believed they abridged constitutional rights. In the end the Senators hoped they had written a bill which safeguarded the "secrets," at the same time gave honest men protection from their Government. Penalties were drastic enough: fines up to $20,000 and jail sentences up to 20 years for giving out atomic secrets with "intent to injure...
...Security Council to little more than a conflict of personalities. Gromyko frowns and all men stiffen in apprehension. His mouth twitches in the semblance of a smile, and we breathe a sigh of relief. The nation, torn by the violent pulsations of hope and despondency, shows signs of drastic deviations from its former idealism...
...proposed commission is not created and set to work immediately, Wild foresees an international armament race that will not only lead to eventual destruction; if, by some chance, the nation should survive, there would only be drastic change in the internal liberties of the American citizen...
...long last, Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt, who wants 2,700,000 new housing units built in the next two years, took drastic steps to implement his hope. In a sweeping order which will change the whole shape of the U.S. building industry, he put a stop to all "nonessential" construction, directed that all building materials should go instead to housing for veterans...
...point of pouring the concrete or laying the bricks) can be completed. But U.S. builders will have to abandon about $14 billion of construction now in the blueprint stage ($4 billion for expensive, non-veteran homes, $10 billion for theaters, office buildings, etc.). Said the Wall St. Journal: "The drastic order, if tightly enforced, will halt what is potentially the largest nonresidential building spree in history...