Word: drastically
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...historic role. In his acceptance speech, he surprised everyone by vowing to "fight until the troops die or the country is lost" and to "be buried with his soldiers." While stubbornly insisting that he remain the legitimate President of South Viet Nam, he later seemed to adopt a less drastic position, promising to start negotiations with the Communists. The feeble old man, who everyone assumed could easily be moved aside for the good of the country, proved to be hard to move. To one caller trying to persuade him to step down, he maintained somewhat pompously: "Thieu ran away from...
...Quadrangle Interhouse Committee yesterday called for a moratorium on any drastic changes in the Radcliffe Houses until alternatives to a recent proposal to house all freshmen in the Quad and all sophomores in the Yard can be evaluated...
...stockbrokers, Mayday means nothing less than the abolition of the system that has enriched them in good times and pulled many of them through during long periods of market slack. What is more, negotiated-or "unfixed" -commissions will begin a drastic restructuring of the securities markets...
...said that assigning freshmen to Houses before they get here is one alternative to the present system, but he also proposed another "drastic" solution: Housing all freshmen at the Quad...
...badly outgunned in Kontum as well. There are now four North Vietnamese divisions in the Central Highlands. Thieu met secretly in the coastal city of Nha Trang on March 14 with Lieut. General Pham Van Phu, commander of Military Region II. The President decided to take the most drastic of steps-strategic retreat. The four ranger groups defending Kontum were shifted southeast to the coastal province of Phu Yen, to be followed a few days later by the 1,200-truck refugee convoy from Pleiku...