Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price supports, and 2) loosen acreage controls for corn, cotton, rice and grains. Benson pronounced himself satisfied with the Senate bill-and fought to keep the House from diluting it. Speaker Sam Rayburn got mad at Benson's persistence, refused to force the farm bill to the floor. Unless Rayburn changes his mind, the 85th Congress rates a barely passing grade-on the theory that if it did no good, it did no harm either...
...Jordan there is no easy way out. Said the diplomat: "We don't regret going into Jordan. But we regret having had to do it." At week's end the U.S. embassy in Amman added to the confusion by "suggesting" that Americans in Jordan leave the country unless there were "compelling" reasons for them to remain. Grumbled a British officer: "It certainly seems ill-timed, I must...
...fourth in the same time. Even Thomas, finishing fifth, had a clocking of 3:58.6. Never before had five runners broken four minutes in the same race. Even rivals were awed by Elliott's achievement. Cracked Delany: "I don't know how you could beat the guy unless you tied his legs...
...Daniel L. Gutman, partner in Zuckerman, Smith & Co.: "The market is enormously dangerous at current levels. There is a great deal of ignorant and superficial buying which is using inflation as an excuse. Unless inflation shows up in earnings and dividends, this reasoning is stupid. The market over the next six months will sell materially lower, touching last fall...
...most of the villagers, gaiety and great pride overcome grimness. Author Deane is aware that there are lessons to be learned, as well as taught in Andalusia. One lesson well learned: the author's three-year-old son can handle a one-glass-a-day wine ration handily, unless someone feeds him sugar cane. When someone does, the mixture "foments"-or so says an ancient barmaid-and he sings Old King Cole in a manner that sounds almost bawdy. But then, of course, the clan is Australian...