Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clause looks like slavery; in the minor leagues, it often is. But the experience of the past thirty years has shown the reserve clause to be the chief stabilizer in the big league player market. Although exceptions are needed in cases like that of Gardella, the reserve clause cannot be thrown out of baseball...
...followed this statement with his own answer to "this strange conundrum. . . . It is because they fear the friendship of the West more than its hostility. They cannot allow free and friendly intercourse to grow up between the vast area they control and the civilization of the West. The Russian people must not see what goes on outside, and the world must not see what goes on inside the Soviet domain...
...source of eventual peace and prosperity, as stated in the preamble and article one of the Pact. But the UN is clearly unable to cope with the present crisis. Its Charter was based on continued cooperation of the Big Five. Until this cooperative spirit reappears, the UN cannot solve major international problems. It is also impossible to strengthen the UN so long as the present attitude of mutual distrust prevails. The Pact allows for the growth of the UN, saying that any military action taken under the treaty "shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary...
...successive Saturdays of dual races with MIT open a four-week season. The Engineers should not press the Crimson too hard, since practice hours at the Institute cannot start until labs are out at 5 p.m. The outings against MIT, however, are the Crimson's only races on the Charles this year, and they will certainly be the easiest...
...elite, is only for breeding purposes; the rest of the time, explains a poet, "we lie side by side, or foot to foot, without bodily contact, and our spirits float upward and drift in a waving motion around the room." Homosexuals and other biological misfits, such as hens that cannot lay eggs, are treated to euthanasia. (The same goes for those who violate "custom" and are repudiated by their class.) Otherwise, all violence, even impoliteness, is tabu-though occasionally New Cretan males are allowed to let off steam by pummeling each other with sticks or donning colored shorts and playing...