Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demand for 30% more pay cannot be met without drastic price increases (see BUSINESS...
Report in the North. Unity in the west had hardly been established before stories of even more drastic unification came out of the Communist area of northern China. They were Communist stories, unconfirmed at week's end by Chiang or anybody else in Chungking. Their substance: while the Generalissimo was negotiating with Communist Mao Tse-tung in Chungking, three of Chiang's armies had attacked Communist forces in Communist-controlled Shansi province, Kwantung, the Yangtze basin, and north of the Yellow River. In some instances, said the Communists, Chiang's troops had invoked the aid of Japanese...
Security in Secrecy? No matter how drastic a law Congress might pass to control the process, there was little security in attempted secrecy. That the U.S. could always produce more bombs than any other country was meaningless when 500 bombs would have as decisive an effect...
...Core Idea. While agreeing that both principles are essential to a free people, more & more educators today are apprehensive that Jeffersonian specialism has run away with the show. But well aware that flight from the technological facts of modern life is impossible, few have urged drastic changes. Nor has Harvard, which comes close to the consensus in urging emphasis on a compulsory "core" of general subjects...
...This drastic scheme did not mean that Germany would be a goat pasture, with no industry whatsoever. The commissioners proposed to allow Germany the minimum absolutely necessary to sustain a workable German economy...