Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union simply could not afford to give a flat rejection to the Eisenhower plan. At first, the Russians apparently under estimated its world wide appeal. But they finally realized that it has aroused strong response in many of the world's underdeveloped areas--countries which the Soviet Union is so strenuously cultivating. These underdeveloped areas, in search of higher living standards, have come to regard atomic energy as their best hope for producing the quantities of power needed for large-scale industrial development. The main function of the proposed international agency would be providing atomic training and research facilities...
...compulsion was probably not the only factor in the Soviet decision. For the Russians could safely afford to give their approval without fear of committing themselves very deeply. As a Soviet delegate was careful to point out, Russia in its favorable vote was supporting "the principle of international cooperation," rather than specific proposals. The international agency is still on the diplomats' drawing boards. Years of negotiations may pass before the Russians actually consent to join it, if they ever do. The international conference is still more than six months away and in any event cannot obligate its participants to take...
...Schwartzwalder's frustrations were not yet over. He was dead broke, and couldn't afford to have the ore hauled down the mountain. "I didn't hardly know which way to turn. We were going steadily into debt. It got so bad I even tried to get contractors to haul it down for 50% of the profit, but no one would. They figured I was another crazy prospector...
...capital of Natal (turn-of-the-century pop. 16,000) into two distinct dietary sections. On the lower ground, near the sea, lived the cangulei-ros, the poorer people who ate a cheap fish called the cangulo; on the higher ground lived the more prosperous xarias', who could afford to eat a more succulent fish called the xareu. The part-Indian Cafes were canguleiros...
...Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary) was near a Bronx fish market; in time, "the odor of sanctity overcame the odor of fish." Later, he moved to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. When he found that the church maintained a chapel for poorer parishioners who could not afford to rent pews in the church proper, Dr. Coffin closed the chapel, abolished the pew rents and merged the two congregations. He often took a portable organ to tenement districts to hold services for workers who came home at 2 a.m. "You do not go into religion head first," he once said...