Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they believe that the President is doing permanent damage to the G.O.P. by putting too much stress on balance and too little on a dynamic program. Rankling them is the belief that just such inflexible conservatism swamped the Republicans in November, will certainly defeat the party in 1960 unless a new national G.O.P. image is forged...
...British and Germans; in fact, it was he who proposed advancing the date to Dec. 27. With the franc officially valued at 420 to the dollar but selling in the free market for 470 or worse, General de Gaulle's government was already faced with one harsh fact: unless the official value of the franc were brought into line with its true value, French products would be too highpriced to compete freely-as they must within the six-nation Common Market-against those of Germany, Italy and Benelux. Now, in addition to devaluing the franc, France had also...
...such problems, the kind that reduced every leader of the Fourth Republic to fatalistic acceptance of eventual defeat, provide a kind of elation to a man of De Gaulle's temperament. "France," he wrote in his memoirs, "is not really herself unless in the front rank. Only vast enterprises are capable of counterbalancing the ferments of dispersal which are inherent in her people." As for himself, De Gaulle has never abandoned the position he took a quarter of a century ago: "Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp on action, takes...
FISHERIES: The extension of offshore-fisheries limits from three to twelve miles, as Canada insists, would injure the U.S. Northwest fishing industry. "Unless Canada follows a more flexible policy, cooperation between the two countries on many other levels might be prejudiced...
...back up the murder suspect's alibi. But they cannot leave their convent to come to court; their vows forbid it. What is more, their reverend mother cannot even ask the mother general in Paris for special permission; the reverend mother has forgotten her French. And unless someone can get the nuns out of the cloister, the monosyllabic police lieutenant is prepared to see the suspect strapped into the electric chair. Enter Private Detective Peter Gunn...