Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speaker said and thereby give those readers who were not present something to think about. Brief restatement requires paraphrase, not quotation. The latter calls too often for further comment, and those words that are all things to all men, like "departmentalization," only put the reader to sleep. You cannot afford to neglect this matter of style, despite your deadlines. It should be a concern second only to deciding which news is most useful to a community representing, so many different interests. Angus Stewart Fletcher...
...laws of economics, the Club of the Three Wise Monkeys should be on its uppers these days. Few families can still afford such expensive education-330 guineas a year ($970). But for British finishing schools, the postwar currency laws have worked wonders by all but stopping the annual export of debutantes to the once-popular Continental schools. Last week the Monkey Club could honestly boast that business is booming...
...sell its $4,500,000 supply business (nails, tacks, eyelets, grommets). But he refused to make United split up into three competing companies and stop leasing its machinery, as the Justice Department had asked. Too many of the U.S.'s 1,300-odd shoe manufacturers cannot afford to buy the machines, he said, and might be forced out of business if they could not lease them...
...increase our endowment, and, in the fact of possible Congressional investigation of Harvard, a group in the Council felt we would damage the fund drive by meeting the Socialists. However, a larger faction in the Council felt that we had a moral obligation to meet them and could not afford to compromise our integrity...
...working over the climax of Death and Transfiguration, while the patient describes his sensations. This lasts from ten minutes to half an hour. Then the wizard slumps back in a sweat and pulls himself together to collect a fee of $16 (but only, he insists, from those who can afford it). With identical treatments, D'Angelo claims to be able to cure "all psychic or nervous disorders," such as paralysis, phobias, migraine, insomnia and loss of sight, hearing or speech. Since most such cases are hysterical in origin, he can often help patients who have enough faith...