Word: drastically
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...season that is starting, hope must be tempered with reason. At the present time the U.S. theater is in a drastic dual crisis. The obvious one is money. In 1956, My Fair Lady was put on for $400,000; last May Dear World lost its backers upwards of $750,000. The theater's angels, who customarily take their temperatures with a Dow-Jones thermometer, feel distinctly chilly after a sustained stock-market decline. The result is that while 33 new plays and 45 musicals have been announced for the season, only seven plays and four musicals are definitely scheduled...
Despite Chasey's edge right now, the two will probably share the duties again unless something drastic happens. Koenig, who most say has a stronger arm than former Dartmouth standout Mickey Beard, is the better signal caller...
...Congress Party's 21-member working committee could vote to discipline Indira or even expel her, but such action would be subject to later approval by the All India Congress Committee, a far larger forum of 700 delegates. The working committee is considered unlikely to take the drastic step of expulsion, primarily because it would tear the party apart -and perhaps leave Indira as a non-Congress Prime Minister with leftist support. The alternative possibility of bringing down her government with a vote of no-confidence was all but ruled out by her show of strength among the Congress...
...original novel was a reminiscence, not a protest, a souvenir of a simpler time when a quiet bitterness was as good as a riot and the most drastic sort of racial demonstration was trying to buy a Coke at the drugstore soda fountain. Parks is not yet sufficiently sophisticated as a dramatist to make such an unquestioning life completely credible to a contemporary audience. To be sure, there is one angry, rebellious black youth who stalks the community giving the sweaty white lawmen a mean time, but he is portrayed as a vicious psychotic who can easily be vanquished...
...death, the chief U.N. truce supervisor, Norway's Lieut. General Odd Bull, ordered two of the 18 observation posts, one on each side, closed because of danger or damage. But despite U Thant's repeated threats to withdraw the observer corps entirely if the risk continues, that drastic step is not likely to be taken...