Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drove home persuasively the point that, much as the U.S. wants peace and friendship, it cannot and will not be pushed around-and that in the nuclear age, attempts to push around add up to deadly folly...
Last week, as the House considered the President's request for $3.9 billion for foreign aid in fiscal 1960, the rivals took to the floor, soon moved from statistics and specifics to their basic philosophies. Said Otto Passman, dazzlingly arrayed in a crisp white linen suit: "First, we cannot spend ourselves rich. Second, we cannot make ourselves secure by giving ourselves away. Third, we cannot buy friends. We were once told that foreign aid would stop Communism. Now we are told it is our duty to buy our way of life for countries all over the world...
...crowd-including one Red Chinese who mystified all present by grabbing Nixon's hand and blurting out an apparently cheery but unintelligible greeting. Politician Nixon proceeded to give Politician Kozlov a boost with the home folks. "Mr. Kozlov," Nixon informed the crowd, "told me several times that one cannot come to the Soviet Union without visiting Leningrad." "Da!" interjected Kozlov loudly as his fellow citizens chuckled. "These are your constituents," grinned Nixon...
...face a life of unemployment or menial work. Even those who make it through college face a bleak and restricted future in the new India; the number of unemployed graduates tops half a million. This paradox of unprecedented numbers demanding university training, when the country's backward economy cannot even absorb all those now being graduated, has created what Indians call their crisis in higher education. It will be a top item for debate at this week's meeting of Indian state ministers of education in New Delhi...
Nasty Job. The first trenches will connect stripped-out areas and so make a perimeter beyond which the fire cannot spread. Then the draglines will work in ward, digging both burning and nonburn-ing coal from the whole 130 acres. Says Mining Engineer Robert W. Bell, consultant to the Carbondale Redevelopment Authority: "A nasty job-rather dangerous." While working on burning coal, the dragline operators will be only the length of their booms (60 to 90 ft.) away from the hot stuff. Each scoopful will be dumped on high ground and sprayed with water. In many places the hot surface...