Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Surely Dean Anderberg, Swedish army chaplain, cannot believe that General Patton was praying for himself . . . His prayer was said for the preservation of freedom...
...impossible to ask him [Acheson] or any other nominee precisely what policies he will pursue, because he or any other nominee will pursue whatever policies are directed by the President. Only the President himself can answer the question, and the answer may sometimes be quite impromptu and unpredictable. We cannot control foreign policy through our action on this or any other nominee. I want to make that plain. Therefore, it should be made wholly obvious that we do not underwrite the results, in terms of foreign policy, which will flow from our confirmation of this or any other nominee...
...cannot listen to music too often. It affects my nerves and makes me want to say sweet nothings and stroke the heads of men who live in a dirty hell and can still create such beauty. But these days you can't go around stroking people's heads lest your hand be bitten off. You have to smash them over the head-smash them without mercy-even though in theory we are against every form of oppression of mankind . . . ours is a hellish task...
...passionate broken English tried to explain what Zionism was all about. Finally Balfour said: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" The young man, whose name was Chaim Weizmann, replied: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves, but with whom I could pave the streets of the country I come from." Balfour looked thoughtful. "If that is so," he replied, "you will one day be a force...
...Lenahan '50, undergraduate President of Pi Eta, said last night that "the record of liberality of Pi Eta has always spoken for itself" and that the letter of one man cannot be taken to express the opinion of an entire organization...