Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said-"I'll see what I can find." He found iodine-131 -Which is also believed to be the vital element in the H-bomb.*Thanks to the accident of prior discovery, radium has never been brought under similar control. Anyone can buy as much as he can afford and carry it home in his pocket. It might cost him $500,000 an ounce, but for a mere $3,000 he can get enough to burn through his pocket and flesh and well into his thigh bone...
...want the payments to be considered expiation. Many Israelis still carry concentration-camp numbers tattooed on their arms; almost all mourn murdered relatives. The prospect of sitting down with the Germans to discuss a financial settlement seemed degrading. But Israel, financially desperate and short of everything, could not even afford pride and sentiment. Opposition newspapers reprinted old photographs of naked, emaciated concentration-camp victims stacked, like cordwood, for burning, but there was little else...
...mostly to illustrate his writings. Then he came to the conclusion that he really hated to write ("I walk around a typewriter for hours with a cramp in my stomach"). Painting was different. "This is all play, you know. And I am now in a position where I can afford to play...
Barnaby says the doubles line-ups haven't yet been decided on, and he's going to do much experimenting on the tour. With four car-loads of promising but mainly untested material, Barnaby can well afford to experiment, if the team hopes to top last year's only fair record...
...Pendergast could afford to be relaxed about contracts. His own Ready Mixed Concrete Co. enjoyed a virtual monopoly of this service in Kansas City and Jackson County...