Word: drastically
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...have failed to win support that is our misfortune. We have aroused by far the most massive hostility in our national experience. There is an underlying implication, never quite vouchsafed, that much of this opposition has been manufactured by Communists. If this is so, it is the most drastic of all indictments of our Vietnam enterprise for it shows what an unparalleled opportunity our enterprise has accorded the Communists for turning erstwhile friends into hostile critics. However, there is no reason to think that the Communists are this much involved. People have probably reacted in accordance with their own conclusions...
Property was the least of the problems. Indeed, sooner or later, Israel's newly bloated borders may undergo drastic shrinkage by negotiation. There is no great urge, for example, to stay in the empty wastes of the Sinai Desert. And rather than maintain a garrison at Sharm el Sheikh, Israel would prefer to see that distant outpost demilitarized and put under international control...
...football team that has driven all the way down the field, has a first down and goal to go on the five-yard line, and punts." The Paulists' superior general, the Very Rev. John F. Fitzgerald, called the bishop's explanation "not sufficient for such a drastic action...
Many state legislatures are incapable of handling legislation efficiently and stand in nedd of drastic reform, Herbert Wechsler, Stone Professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia University, said yesterday...
...incidents a day. "The Syrians are not good pupils," said Israel's army chief of staff, Yitzhak Rabin. "They do not learn from their mistakes." Unless the terrorism stopped immediately, warned Premier Levi Eshkol at the beginning of last week, "we may have to adopt measures no less drastic than those of April...