Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social whirl, John Sparkman relaxes by gardening, sometimes shoots a "terrible" game of golf (low 100s). A staunch Methodist, he teaches an adult Bible class at Washing ton's Hamline Church. (In 1944, when asked to describe his idea of Heaven, Sparkman offered this modest vision: ". . . Heaven must afford an opportunity of again meeting . . . our loved ones ... I am sure that in Heaven there must be an opportunity for purposeful work, always with a glorious accomplishment rather than a failure as the result...
...crowd and said: "We have opportunities our forefathers never had. Thanks to Socialism, the bad old days are behind us, new urgencies press upon us, but ordinary men and ordinary women using free institutions can do extraordinary things. It's just that we can't afford the luxury of a Tory government. The most patriotic thing Churchill can do is to resign next week...
...political pressure group, the peasant-farmer bloc, demanded an increase in the price of wheat, he bravely said no. If bread prices rise, he argued, the whole delicate mechanism controlling the cost of living will break down. Price hikes mean wage boosts, and France can afford neither. It was the first time since World War II that a French Premier has faced down the farmers-a rare act of political courage...
...artists prefer portraiture to other forms of painting; very few excel at it. Portraits afford little opportunity for imagination or self-expression, but they require a full measure of two great qualities: clarity of observation and rendition. The public is nevertheless partial to portraits, especially those of women & children. The four reproduced on the opposite page are public favorites at four U.S. museums...
...Beer is the usual drink of 72% of college men, but only 47% prefer beer-the others drink it because they cannot afford hard liquor...