Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pesos from such notoriously open-handed patrons as drunks, lovers and tourists. But his steadiest customers are the poor. When the shoeshiner's family takes a trip on the second-class bus, the cilindrero plays Las Golondrinas at the sendoff. He performs at dances for those who cannot afford to hire mariachis or fancy bands. When at midafternoon he shuffles into the big patio of a working-class tenement, children shriek, dogs bark, chickens scurry around, and women drop their housework to listen to his loud, lively songs. Then coins drop from some of the windows, and his partner...
...This is a wealthy neighborhood, but these people here don't have any domestic or financial security at all ... On Sunday the parking lot is filled with Cadillacs that these people can't afford. There is so much emphasis on material wealth...
Systematic Drinking. At war's end, Kindelberger answered an ad of Glenn L. Martin Co., landed a job as draftsman at $27.50 a week. For months, he worked in his old uniforms because he could not afford to buy civilian clothing, augmented his salary by teaching aviation classes , at night, developing photos in a bathroom and writing for Popular Mechanics (at $3 to $5 an article). Raised to $32 a week in 1919, he married his childhood sweetheart, Thelma Knarr. (She divorced him in 1945, and Kindelberger is now married to Helen Allen, a onetime model...
Ridgway on the peace offensive: "I know of no facts which would lead me to conclude that the military danger from the East has lessened ... As a soldier, I cannot afford to deal with conjecture...
...people would like to have A good original art in their homes, but few can afford it. A Montevideo-born artist named Antonio Frasconi has found a personal solution to the problem: he does woodcuts. Frasconi, today the U.S.'s foremost woodcut artist, makes 10 or 15 prints of a cut, sells them for $25 to $125 each. Such prices have brought him a far wider public than most painters can boast. This week, 34 of Frasconi's best woodcuts start a year-long tour of U.S. museums, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. The three prints opposite reflect...