Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary fellow in contact with the difficulties and absurdities of the present day . . . contentious world." World Citizen is a young man who wears only a raincoat ("It would be all the better to draw him naked-life in the raw, you know"), no shoes ("He can't afford them"). He runs up against such absurdities and difficulties as peace-petition bearers who beat him up to force him to sign, security sleuths who shadow him because he carries a briefcase (it's his lunch...
...rule. Placement figures have always been high; and if anyone regrets the existence of the Business School, Fortune Magazine commented recently, it's probably the firms that can't offer enough to attract Harvard men into their organizations. Many banks and accounting firms can't easily afford starting salaries much over $250 a month; but the average firm operating through the school's Placement Office these days is bidding around $300 in starting salary...
...final vote on the foreign aid bill reflected the predominant view that the measure was the best possible guess as to what is required abroad and what the U.S. can afford to put up. Sixty-one voted for it; only five, all diehard Republican isolationists, voted...
...arguing for loosening the law, Carneiro had in mind the evasions which estranged Brazilians have practiced for years. The rich are frequently divorced and remarried abroad. Those who cannot afford to travel often get Uruguayan and Mexican divorces through Rio lawyers. Other Brazilians separated from their spouses simply move a new "wife" into the house without any semblance of divorce or new marriage. This happens even in top society. A decade ago, Francisco Campos, a cabinet minister, split from his wife and living with another woman, offered a bril liant formal reception, held his mistress' arm, and announced, "From...
Robert Bierstedt, University of Illinois professor of sociology, was asked to criticize a manuscript, list possible improvements, estimate sales, suggest the effects of popularization-all for $30. "My fee," replied Bierstedt, "has gone up to $100." Sorry, said the publisher, we can't afford it: we contribute to scholarship by bringing out books that will never make money. "Such solicitude [for scholarship]," wrote Bierstedt, "is touching"-but he had seen too many lavish dinners go on publishers' expense accounts. "Professors may be stupid when it comes to dollars," he concluded, "but they know a little something about dialectic...