Word: unless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adds with a gesture toward the deer's six-pointed rack of antlers. "Antlers don't tell you anything about a deer's age. But they'll tell you how well he eats. A deer doesn't grow a rack like that unless he's getting plenty of food...
...name for the Engelhard Library of Public Affairs is on the list. So is the option to take drama courses for credit and go to a foreign country to study, not to mention a Writing Center. Free toilet paper, too, unless of course you've already got it. And, of course, the option to eat only 14 meals a week on board...
English-speaking audiences usually sit through this marathon with only a vague idea of what's happening. They can tell the giants from the dwarfs, and maybe, after a couple of operas, they begin to realize the importance of that little gold ring. But unless you're willing to put in the time to read the entire libretto--and to study the leitmotif structure Wagner used to organize his music--the most you'll get out of the operas is a few gasps at the brilliance of the musical climaxes in between a lot of boredom. The subtleties Wagner took...
...King's lawyer, I have to keep my personal viewpoints apart," Lynch said. "I'll only advise him to abandon positions that are legally untenable, and if a position he holds is legally sound, I won't disagree with it unless it's during a free exchange of personal opinions," he added...
When the White House forthrightly announced that Jimmy Carter was in severe pain from a bad case of hemorrhoids and that surgery was being considered, inevitably there were some jokes. It is not an ailment an individual elects to advertise unless, like Carter, he must in order to cancel a day's schedule without giving the stock market a heart attack. There was also a great deal of sympathy, tacit and expressed. Wrote one Egyptian: "May Allah cure you. This illness should have been inflicted on an unjust leader rather than you, O Carter...