Word: unless
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...homes and small businesses, into a dreary brown plain littered with rain-soaked lumber; jagged, anonymous pieces of metal; and the bare, black bellies of truck frames. Bruce Thoren, a National Weather Service meteorologist said the storm was "too large to outrun and too strong to have survived, unless you got away from the path." In its wake, half a mile wide and seven miles long, the twister left at least 27 people dead, nothing but bald concrete slabs in the ground where homes once stood, and a small town with big gaps among its chains of families and friends...
Richard C. Marius, senior lecturer on English, reminds us that "human beings are incomplete unless they can stare out windows, seeing a world beyond what the eye can behold." Speeding along the highway between downtown offices and suburban homes, living in rooms with incredible views, we will be sheltered from America's latent racism, sexism, homophobia, poverty and moral uncertainty. It's really there. And unless we remember that many among us live sad lives of quiet desperation--and that we are who we are because someone loved us, cared for us and lent us a guiding hand--then...
According to one foreign language administrator at Dartmouth University, students there must take three quarter-terms of a foreign language unless they score a 690 on the Achievement or a four on the AP exam...
...after a while, you'll have come to either trust my observational skills or disregard them. But--and this is the important part--I don't see how you can ever come to respect any praise I give to a team or a player unless I am open to criticizing it or him or her. It is precisely because I saw and remarked upon Prestifilippo's flaws that you should believe me when I say that he was the Crimson's MVP this past year, that he grew into his role and got better and better as the season went...
...think in the long term that unless the situation corrects itself, it's probably not a good situation for higher education," he says. "The other schools will begin to trail behind, which is not a good thing for the country...as higher education resources are going to be shrinking...