Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...person held enough authority over this group of proud and often pig-headed individualists. As a result, the scenery or wardrobe departments might disregard their budgets for the sake of greater art, or an optimism based on ignorance might provide the spirit for a production which they could never afford. Always they sought to expand and reach farther; always they were badly in debt...
...subject, but we shall ask a few questions: Does General Eisenhower subscribe to the Fortress America theory, as his remarks about withdrawing American troops from Korea seem to indicate? Has he chinged his mind about the European policy of which he was such a great exponent? Can America afford to make even the slightest slip back to isolation...
Auto-Neurosis. In Bridgeport, Conn., charged with setting eight cars on fire, George Brandt told police: "I couldn't afford to own an automobile . . . and I didn't want anyone else to have...
Financially Herter is far behind Dever. Neither he nor the Republican State Committee can afford the lavish posters and full-page newspaper advertisements Dever is using. So far, Herter has managed to counter with slushy soap-box radio commercials on local stations. The commercials have a simple plot: a wife complains to her husband about corruption in the state administration, wails "why did I vote for him in 1950," and together husband and wife sobbingly declare they will "vote this time for Chris Herter...
Premium Plans. How to pay for this? Those who can afford private health-insurance plans should pay for them,says Murphy. And more people must be brought into these plans. Those who cannot afford to pay their own premiums must be helped by either state or federal governments...