Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...different sentiment: "Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong." Again Honest Abe said on May 19, 1856: "But we must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot...
...peril point for years in the future? It was also an open invitation to every industry to bring terrific political pressures to bear on its behalf. "With the peril-point amendment," argued Majority Leader Scott Lucas, "we abandon our position as the economic leader in world affairs . . . We cannot say to the rest of the world: 'From now on the primary factor in our tariff system is protection to domestic industry' and escape the retaliation which will follow . . . We shall move backward instead of forward...
Japan. Britain is more anxious for a peace treaty than the U.S., which dislikes the prospect of withdrawing occupation forces, and which cannot see how a satisfactory treaty can be drawn either with or without the concurrence of Red Russia and Red China...
About one-third of all U.S. table salt is now iodized, but many housewives in iodine-poor areas suspect iodized salt (clearly labeled, under federal regulations) of being "medicated." Millions more do not know that they, and more particularly their children, cannot be healthy without iodine-which modern technology first took out of their salt, and is now able to put back...
...simple conviction that there is nothing like a girl to catch the public's eye. Actually, with the buyers' market making the going tougher than before, the advertising business has begun to realize that a pretty girl can only lead the customer to the store counter; she cannot make him buy. Only the product itself can do that. The new emphasis in advertising, particularly for such goods as synthetics, electronic devices and new drugs, is on telling an informative story of quality...