Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign policy, thus reflects a growing U.S. move to recapture the spirit of the logic of what the Navy's great theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, called "reasonable policy supported by might," limited by Theodore Roosevelt's word of caution, "I never take a step in foreign policy unless I am assured that I shall be eventually able to carry out my will by force...
...lead the famous "Revolt of the Admirals" (1948-49) that the Army's General Omar Bradley, then chairman of the J.C.S., got away with calling him one of the Navy's "fancy Dans who won't hit the line with all they have on every play unless they can call the signals...
...candidate for one of the most serious of all diving accidents: air embolism." Apart from the danger of a lung bursting, the abnormal pressure can force air bubbles through the pulmonary veins and into the heart. The bubbles usually travel to the brain, causing convulsions and unconsciousness, and unless the victim is treated promptly by recompression, he is almost certain to die. The greatest danger of air embolism is in emergency ascents-perhaps after the scuba has gone out of kilter at great depth. Dr. Lanphier notes: "Only a well-instructed and coolheaded diver can be expected to repress...
...raise interest from 2.9% to 3%. The maturity period of bonds was then cut from ten years to nine years, eight months. The new plan would cut maturity to eight years, eleven months, and pay 3% interest after only three years. (The holder will not get the 3¼% unless he holds the bond till maturity.) A similar rate increase will be made on Series H bonds, which are sold in denominations of $500 and more, with semiannual interest payments. Series J and K bonds, sold in denominations up to $100,000, would be discontinued, because big investors...
...Gaposchkin firmly believes that a woman can combine successfully "either professional success and a family, or professional success and an active social life." But she doubts if any woman could be a success at all three, "unless she were a millionaire. I have to go home every night and fix dinner for my family," she adds...