Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire "just once more" a trench-mortar which he had warned the officer was unsafe. The mortar burst. Mussolini sustained 42 serious wounds, nearly died, lived to see Italy, although "victorious," slump into a period of post-War depression, discontent and unrest from which he felt that only the drastic "black shirts" could save her. To Signora Sarfatti, it was the Socialists who "deserted" Mussolini by betraying Italy?not the reverse...
...long statement in which he described the Polish Government as "taking hold with a firm hand," and the Poles as "grimly determined to pull through" the present period of financial depression. He added that the Polish Government has cut its budget 25% for the coming year and instituted other drastic economies, and he believes they will make good...
Suddenly the two foxes began to interweave their trails. The mongrel and aristocratic canine pursuers became hopelessly entangled and started fighting among themselves. Scandalized, the Surrey Union Huntsmen rode up and tried to disperse the mongrel pack by a drastic and ungentle plying of whips Their morning had gone simply blotto.* Their tempers were up, and mongrel hides offered a safe issuance for spleen. It did not occur to them that the whelps might belong to anybody...
...France once said that he did not know the difference between a stock and a bond because he had never possessed enough spare cash to purchase either. Of such stuff art popular heroes made. Last week Finance Minister Loucheur, known as "the richest man in France," save his drastic eight-billion-franc tax bill (TIME, Dec. 21) wrecked amid a storm of popular resentment Jean Frenchman made it exceedingly evident that he resented being told to pay crushing taxes by the millionaire-financier, M. Loucheur...
...make his own triumph the greater when he succeeded. One Frenchman said to another, "What if it were all a put up job: a deal whereby Doumer, who has the Senate solidly behind him, should succeed the brilliant but unpopular Loucheur, and slide necessary tax measures of a less drastic nature through the Chamber...