Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intimating that such criticism might be due to election year politicking, Harris, in a letter to the New Times, wrote, "It is difficult to understand this opposition unless it results from a fear that the high-money rates introduced in order to cope with inflationary tendencies may prove embarrassing in November...
...internal affairs. When the British showed no disposition to turn over Singapore's police to the local government, Marshall slapped down a draft bill for Singapore's full independence, with the last word on internal security resting with the Singaporeans. Said he: "I am resigning immediately unless I get my proposals accepted...
...British attitude is that Singapore's local police forces are inextricably bound up with the island's defense system, and that unless the British have the key job (chairmanship) in Singapore's Security Council, their power to act in a defense emergency would be hopelessly impaired. Lennox-Boyd pledged that Britain would exercise this power only in the gravest national emergency...
...State Department would do well to be more subtle in its public utterances. It may evaluate Russia as it sees fit, but to the world, the United States must appear hopeful, creative, positive, and always willing to meet the Kremlin half-way. Unless the U.S. consciously attempts to create this attitude, the country may too soon learn how to lose friends and alienate people...
...advisee. Many freshmen seem to feel that the Union is a good place to meet their adviser, but it is natural for the adviser to be hesitant. As Edward T. Wilcox, adviser and associate director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, says, "I never eat with my advisees unless they ask me to. The last thing we want is to have lots of eager advisers rushing around the Union to find freshmen. I go and sit by myself and see if any freshmen will come over." Actually, the person the freshmen are complaining about is not the one who comes...