Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian Century, under the headline MR. DULLES SHOULD BE NAMED AT ONCE on Nov. 3: "The constitutional interregnum . . . cannot be avoided, but if the President-elect will name his Secretary of State immediately, the damage . .. will be held at a minimum." This week the Christian Century was still calling Dewey "the President-elect...
...there iniquity in my tongue? Cannot my taste discern perverse things? . . . Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred...
...Istanbul patriarchs are virtually imprisoned in the patriarchate, since they cannot appear in public without their official robes, which are forbidden by law on the streets of Turkey...
Rouault has a habit of keeping his paintings locked up in his studio for years on end, signing them only when he is sure he cannot improve them by so much as a single stroke of the brush. He thinks of himself as a misunderstood traditionalist in art (his training was both academic and thorough), and he has been heard to complain that the younger modern painters "don't begin at the beginning...
...past two years, A.A. has more than doubled its membership (from 35,000 to 75,000). It now has 2,500 groups in the U.S. and 23 foreign countries-from Canada to Australia and Japan. The onetime alcoholics feel that their disease is one which cannot be cured, but can be arrested; they know that they cannot safely take even a single drink. They know that the fight is a tough one, but it can be done, with the help of friends and a Higher Power...