Word: unless
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...message had a tone of great urgency. It concluded: "We could lose this economic contest [with Communism] unless the country as a whole wakes up to all its implications." The urgent tone is justified by current facts. But there is no evidence that it is "the country as a whole" that needs to wake or act. The public has not dragged its heels in this decade on any foreign policy effort...
Minnesota Republican leaders said they would place the President's name in their March 20 primary, claimed to have assurances that it would not be withdrawn (under Minnesota law, the name would stay on the ballot unless the President specifically asked that it be removed...
...Gurion's administration is the artificiality of Israel's prosperity. Israel lives on German reparations of about $60 million a year, which will run out in 1965; on U.S. aid ($40 million in 1955); on gifts and loans from world Jewry ($67 million in 1955). Unless economic reforms are made, warns one of Israel's top economists, the country faces an "even more serious inflation than in 1951." Even with exports at record levels, Israel's imports run three times as high. The tremendous trade gap, admits Finance Minister Levi Eshkol, "is causing anxiety." If Israel...
...time, Hong Kong was a frightened place. Today Hong Kong is remarkably unfrightened. Its citizens, if they talk about it at all, exchange the mutual confidence that the big Red cat will not try to gulp down Britain's fat little Asian canary unless it is prepared to take on Britain and the whole Western world...
Since that cold Nov. 18 when she first showed up in her seventh-grade classroom wearing a pair of corduroy slacks, Shirley Richardson, 14, of Thompsonville, Conn., has been leading a lonely life. Principal Ernest White told her that slacks were against the rule, and that unless she returned to skirts, she would have to sit in a room by herself. Shirley's parents protested that as a result of an operation four years ago, Shirley's legs needed special protection against the cold. The principal asked to see a doctor's affidavit, but never...