Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Santa Claus as "pagan and Anglo-Saxon." The crèche and the Three Kings, they suggested, are more truly Latin. By & large, Mexican fathers, cracking under the strain of two gift days, backed the drive to cast out U.S.-style celebrations. Said one: "I can't afford any more to be Santa and the Three Kings, so my wife and I decided in favor of the Three Kings." That settled, he went downtown to buy the presents his three daughters wanted for the Festival of the Kings: cowgirl outfits from...
When Severino graduated last summer, it looked for a while as though his blooming artistic career might be cut cruelly short. His father, a poor tenant farmer, could not afford the $235, for tuition and expenses, to send Severino to art school in nearby Urbino (where Raphael was born in 1483). Rome Art Dealer Gaetano Chiurazzi, informed of Severino's plight, offered his gallery for a show of Severino's drawings plus a sampling of the most distinguished works of the Severino School, all proceeds to go to the artists to "study and grow...
...speech blasted "the mad dogs of reaction" who, he said, are seeking to create a "police state" in America. The government is pursuing this policy because it is attempting a war of conquest and can not afford to have its strategy criticized, Kutcher declared...
...that they were paying the punishment for colleagues who spent an average of 50 minutes on the job. The consensus of opinion was that they were doing a good job in an hour and a half and that an extra half hour, rather than produce cleaner rooms would only afford them, a chance to talk to friends on the job and serve to mix up their schedules...
...look good. Crop yields have been increased by 20% to 100%. No Krilium is for sale at present. When it does go on the market, in a year or so, it will cost "something under $2 per Ib." At this price only highly specialized farmers will be able to afford it. If applied to the top three inches of soil at the lowest claimed concentration (.02%), about 200 Ibs. will be needed to treat one acre. Monsanto believes that Krilium will be used first by truck farmers, home gardeners, etc., who can afford to apply it to limited areas. Later...