Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mainly influenced by a marked improvement in his health during the past year. A year ago, after a successful but exhausting world tour and a difficult legislative session, the Prime Minister was feeling his age, and dropped a series of hints that he would retire unless he felt a lot better soon. That prospect was more than agreeable to Mme. St. Laurent, who worried about her lawyer-husband's late entry into politics (at 59) and has never made any secret of her willingness to quit Ottawa for a quieter life at the family home in Quebec City...
...immobilisme in Morocco, hoping that the new treaty with neighboring Tunisia (which gives the Arabs some hope of self-government) would in time prove a model for Morocco. Now the Lemaigre murder has shocked into silence even advocates of strong-arm repression like Marshal Juin. Action is long overdue, unless France is to see Morocco go the way of Indo-China...
...late President Getulio Vargas, and General Juarez Tavora, hero of the conservative military leaders whose determination to clean up the mess in Rio led to Vargas' resignation and suicide last year. But rumors were louder than ever in Rio last week that the officers would postpone the election unless their man seems likely...
Last week the hunger strike ended (after 152 hours, five minutes) and the battle moved to the National Assembly. A majority of the legislators backed the married monks, passed a resolution demanding that the government let them alone unless there was further bloodshed or property damage. But President Syngman Rhee paid them no mind. The married monks must go on schedule, he decreed: "They are following the Japanized principle of Buddhism." (Some Japanese sects of Buddhism allow monks to marry...
...problem; it was also a political issue. Many states have laws or administrative rulings that bar unemployment payments as long as a worker receives money from his employer. The union's lobbyists are going to work to get them changed, because the Ford agreement to G.A.W. is off unless the governments in states containing two-thirds of Ford employees agree by June 1, 1957 to permit the supplemental G.A.W. payments...