Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city that a man curses when he finds a parking ticket on his car, when his car is stolen, when he gets dust in his eye, when the street sprinkler squirts his new suit, when his son comes from the public school with a bloody nose, when his son cannot go to school because of a measles epidemic...
Peace Hopes, 1914. "I could not forget that half the world was afire, and I could not assent to the President's view that the War was one 'whose causes cannot touch...
...There are already signs of a split in the Dictator's government and the withdrawal of the element which cannot approve of what in plain fact is simple tyranny. Something is certain to happen. The interesting question is what and how soon...
...violence for justice and has no longer the faintest vestige of a free press, and a government which imposes injury and poverty on the smallest official who speaks a breath of criticism against it. ... Conditions are not growing better. My total impression was one of impending disaster. The country cannot continue under such a state of nerves and under such a dictatorship indefinitely. Something must happen-assassinations, wars or another revolution. It is not only that the conditions menace Italy, but in the passion of their present irrational attitude the Italians certainly threaten to create a sore spot...
Apples, Cider. In the country around Martinsburg, W. Va., this season's apple crop totals 1,000,000 barrels, but cannot be sold. Growers have set up apple stands and cider tubs in Martinsburg's public square where all comers may help themselves freely...