Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School of Education has made a start, but no more. Reforms that looked drastic yesterday are inadequate today...
Even at the time, not all gun owners were happy with the NRA's support of this bill. They argued that--no matter how minor its provisions--it would lead the way to more drastic legislation. After President Kennedy was shot, President Johnson and Senator Dodd pushed for a much tougher bill. The NRA withdrew its support...
...worst fears were realized and such gun laws were passed, the group predicts a drastic rise in the crime rate. And here, reams of statistics flow back and forth between proponents and opponents of gun laws. Propagandists for both sides pick and choose at will...
...North, Saigon's mood was one of deep apprehension. Despite U.S. protestations that it would not abandon Viet Nam, the country's leaders worried about what course the U.S. might take in peace talks and began rethinking how South Viet Nam should react to any drastic shift in the American commitment...
When Hemingway Biographer A. E. Hotchner showed up for a party in Manhattan last New Year's Eve, his hostess did a double take at his bushy new mustache, then decided on drastic measures. Recalls Hotchner with a wince: "She ripped it off the moment I walked in. " That could have been a moment of pain for "Hotch,"except that the mustache was a phony, held in place by a coating of spirit gum. Undaunted, he has sported his brush on several occasions since. "It's a great comfort when you're feeling low," he says...