Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nurtured with the sweat of work, that matched the weather and the scene. At Amsterdam's first Assembly of the World Council of Churches (TIME, Sept. 13), Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr had gloomily commented: "There is so little health in the whole of our modern civilization that one cannot find the island of order from which to proceed against disorder...
...began, Tom Dewey made it clear that the Republican Party had rid itself for keeps of the old taint of isolationism. He spoke on the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Munich Pact and he was explicit in his resolve that Munich must never come again: "We cannot buy peace with appeasement. That course has always led throughout history and always will lead to greater and greater demands on the part of the aggressor. In the end it can lead only to slavery...
...anti-segregation law: "When will they learn, as the South has learned, that you cannot legislate racial harmony...
Beyond a certain point, the Southerner will not or cannot give a reasonable answer to the Negro problem. It is not, he feels, a reasonable problem. And it was not a problem that he brought on himself. It is his business to live with it, but it is no more capable of overnight solution than any other vexation he inherited. This sense of irrational frustration reduces most Southerners to the flat statements of defiance with which they commonly respond when a Northerner-especially a Northern "liberal"-attacks them on the subject...
...Vishinsky: "Nobody will blind us and confuse us with beautiful words about the necessity of waiving part of our national sovereignty . . . The control agency would be an American agency ... an international monopolistic super-trust. [The overeager Russian-English interpreter rendered this as "superduper crook."] Our chest is strong; you cannot push us down. Our neck is not a chicken's neck...