Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minnesota's dairy-defending G.O.P. Congressman Harold Knutson wrathfully contemplated the spectacle of city Republicans working for oleo with Southern Democrats. "You saps!" he screamed. (For the Congressional Record he edited this to "You poor, misguided creatures.") "I cannot understand you. You did what the New Dealers shied away from doing for 16 long years." He threatened the South with revenge. "We are going to remove all quotas on cotton imports . . . If you pull us down, by the eternal, we will pull you down with...
...hope. It would not mean that we regarded a third world war as inevitable, but that ... to prevent such a war [we] would organize so as to confront the forces of Communist expansionism with an overwhelming preponderance of moral, economic and military force ... so used that the free nations cannot be defeated one by one. No measure less than this will...
...scorns the 19th Century and its romantics-Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner-and latter-day romantics like Richard Strauss. He once insisted, in a heated moment, that "Music is powerless to express anything whatsoever." As for writing like a romantic, he says: "I cannot appeal to you as a person with my music; it would embarrass...
...Oxnam turned next to the menace of Communism. A "holy war" against the Communists is no answer, he said; the evil must be fought where it grows-in poverty and economic injustice. Nor can Christians "defeat totalitarianism by allying ourselves with totalitarianism, whether it be ecclesiastical or political." Ideas cannot be shattered by atomic bombs, but only by better ideas. "Justice and brotherhood within the conditions of freedom are like bells. They sound the death knell of Communism...
Since the extent of these factors tending towards a jump in board rates cannot be estimated accurately at the current time, Reynolds said that any increase could not be announced to students until the beginning of the Fall term. Nor will its extent be known until that time, Reynolds stated...