Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even Great Britain, because "they are too lenient with traitors." Confident that the U.S. is far ahead in atomic development, Cole nevertheless sees a great, new field to conquer. Said he: "We have advanced so far in stockpiling and capacity to produce A-bombs and weapons that we can afford to turn some of our attention to the development of atomic energy for industrial power...
Perhaps the best way to assure attendance is to give students a letter grade for their work instead of the present department rating, and to make that grade part of the permanent record. Many especially non-honors men--feel that, time-wise, they cannot afford to prepare for tutorial because it is unimportant to their academic standing. A permanent grade would correct that attitude. And the threat of a poor grade would bring back those who constantly cut without fear of reprisal...
...Berlin Stories for the stage, Van Druten has tried to transcribe not only the characters, but the form of the stories as well, with Isherwood the passive observer of Berlin life in the thirties. As the chronicler of the life around him, the Isherwood of the book can afford to be passive, "a camera, with shutter open." As a character in a play, however, the same Isherwood is only static, a figure hovering, observing, but lacking any depth. Van Druten tries half-heartedly to personalize the character by picturing him as a hypochondriac, but his Isherwood remains only a foil...
...Caius answered:] "It is the duty of the government to provide the necessities of life at a price the poor can afford; once you start doing that you have to fix the price of a good many other things as well, and compel people to work at the unpopular trades that lose money...
...Insult. Fortnight ago their chance came. Yoshida was under attack in the press for following a foreign policy "subservient" to that of the U.S. Socialists accused him of rearming Japan before Japan can afford rearmament; rightists warned that he is not rearming Japan fast enough to meet the Communist threat. (Hatoyama favors direct rearmament, wants to remove the disarmament pledge which MacArthur put into the Japanese constitution; Yoshida prefers the subterfuge of a national police force...