Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spaak had relinquished public office at home just in time to be elected first president of the Assembly. His first act was to call for a short, practicable agenda. The Assembly rambunctiously rebelled against the Committee of Ministers, which has power to tell the Assembly what it can and cannot talk about. Cried Winston Churchill: "Why all this interference with the freedom of discussion...
...them ... Its leaders had proved incapable of meeting the crisis confronting them, its troops had lost the will to fight, and its government had lost popular support . . . History has proved again & again that a regime without faith in itself and an army without morale cannot survive the test of battle . . . The Nationalist armies did not lose a single battle during the crucial year of 1948 through lack of arms or ammunition . . . [They] did not have to be defeated; they disintegrated...
Because of his hazardous work, a miner cannot afford the cost of sky-high life insurance. The U.M.W. fund, reported Miss Roche, paid out $5,500,000 since mid-1948 to nearly 32,000 survivors of miners who died or were killed (an average of $174 per beneficiary). Another $64 million went into disability and assistance grants, $30 million for the miners' $100-a-month pension program, and $5,000,000 for health and medical services...
...several occasions our men . . . had to confront the enemy face to face. Blood has already been shed . . . Rumors are still being heard. At first these rumors were spread by Western persons . . . But we knew that the Red army cannot attack a Socialist country because that would mean the end of Socialism in the world . . . But today those in the East are also trying to intimidate us, disseminating rumors ... of this many and that many Soviet divisions in one place or another . . . We are afraid only of elemental upheavals, droughts and hail . . . [We are] prepared to defend our country against...
...hilarious Joan of Arc, as well as such authentic native daughters as Barbara Frietchie, Ruby Foo and Miriam, the mother of Irium. As Pocahontas ("better-known by her Indian name, Alka-Seltzer"), Ethel Merman tomahawked a marauding redskin who was stalking Captain John Smith. "Like George Washington, I cannot tell-um lie," she cried triumphantly. "I chop down Cherokee...