Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Striding into Tunis' ornate Constituent Assembly Hall to commemorate Tunisian Independence Day-the deadline for his threatened decision to lead Tunisia into neutralism or Nasserism unless the U.S. and Britain took his part against France-Bourguiba briskly reversed his field, declared, "We tell our Arab and Oriental brothers: We have chosen the West, and we will stay with the West. We must choose cooperation with the West to shut the gates of hell." For the first time since the bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef, Bourguiba even had a few good words for France: "I have always been in favor...
...envoys to go about demanding civilized treatment on the strength of such chits of paper." Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru himself seemed equally unsatisfied to accept apologies as a substitute for immediate and constructive action. Last week he told his Parliament that India will break diplomatic relations with the Federation unless discrimination comes...
...presidency, Lleras Camargo and an anti-Gómez faction of the Conservatives agreed upon León Valencia as a single candidate for the presidential election set for May 4. But Gómez, on his return from Spain, forced Lleras to reopen the question and agree that unless León Valencia won the approval of a majority of the new Congress, he would no longer be the joint candidate. Now León Valencia is bitter. "If I had not entered the battle against Rojas Pinilla's dictatorship last year," he said last week...
...striking idea, a specific selling point that got across a message without a lot of talk. He disdained the use of gimmicks to lure readers. Said he: "A picture of a man standing on his head would get attention, but the reader would feel tricked by the gimmick-unless, of course, we were trying to sell a gadget to keep change in his pocket." He got a reputation for being an adman's adman, for putting small accounts on a level with big ones. He made an obscure New York bread one of the city's best known...
...Paul Douglas favors a temporary cut for six months or a year, with the termination date written into law. The argument for a temporary cut is that, though reinstatement of any cut might be necessary to fight inflation, no politicos would boost taxes with a presidential election coming up unless it were agreed on in advance. On the other hand, many economists and businessmen favor a tax reduction without any cutoff date, believe that a cut advertised as temporary beforehand might defeat its own purpose. Taxpayers might be reluctant to spend on the basis of a temporary cut, instead save...