Word: unless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rankin has both major parties in a very nasty position. Democratic leaders cannot require their forces to oppose the pension bill, unless they want a full-scale mutiny on their hands. The GOP is similarly tied, although Republicans can hardly deny some satisfaction at the sight of the Administration taking a licking. Two veterans' organizations have had the courage to fight Rankin's bill; but the efforts of the American Veterans Committee and the Amvets cannot match the elephantine maneuvers of the American Legion, which has blessed the measure with all the prestige of around 4,000,000 Legionnaires...
...state-run courts will, according to Smith, be of a special domestic-relations variety, with a judge to give the final decision. They will be equipped with doctors and psychiatrists, and divorces will not be granted unless absolutely necessary...
...secure rent-hikes if he can show that his income is seriously falling relative to his costs. More than that, for the last few years real-estate operators have been using leases as a very effective anti-tenant weapon, keeping people paying on an insecure month-to-month basis, unless they agree to rent rises...
...writing what he thought - and eight previous arrests - Kung knew what to expect. He told his wife: "You can reach me at the prison." The day before, Kung had written a long, angry editorial accusing retired President Chiang Kai-shek of "manipulating" the Chinese government from "behind the screen." Unless Chiang "goes abroad," wrote Kung, "the nation and the people will be ruined." Some Chinese had said this privately; no other editor had dared to publish it. For three days Kung sat in prison. Released, he promptly wrote an editorial defiance of his late captors ("I am always...
...true democracy," Eliot asserts stoutly, "can maintain itself unless it contains these different levels . . . Complete equality means universal irresponsibility . . . oppressive for the conscientious and licentious for the rest." Mass education looks fine on paper, but in practice it only means "half-education," and encourages the half-baked notion "that superiority is always superiority of intellect." In Eliot's Victorian view of things, the true superiority is the superiority of any class passing on its culture for generation after generation...