Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold war, which might hot up at any moment, or simmer for ten years. They argue first that they do not want to disrupt the civilian economy (the military used to state its needs bluntly, leave to somebody else the onus of ruling that the nation couldn't afford it). George Marshall likes to say that the U.S. cannot mobilize too fast, or it will be "all dressed up with no place to go." Another pet Pentagon phrase capsules a planner's fear: that once production is really turned on, "the damned stuff will be running...
Whether or not the gamble works, the U.S. cannot afford to be 20% behind in half-speed mobilization...
...patience. "We've got a long-range crop that summer after summer is exposed to fire," said a Weyerhaeuser man last week, "and we've got to face it for 80 years before we can do any harvesting." Some small operators do not think that they can afford to wait; they cut their lands bare, leave them prey to erosion...
...opponents of national health insurance argue that it is not necessary, because two-thirds of the U.S. people can afford to pay for voluntary insurance. The argument has been effective; against it the Truman-Ewing plan (TIME, Feb. 20, 1950 et seq.) has got nowhere. But last week Oscar Ewing, Federal Security Administrator, who had been going over the opposition's argument for loopholes, thought he had found one big enough to drive an ambulance through...
Unable to afford the $230 plane fare, Morton took the bus. On the back seat he sat upright with Donald cradled in his arms, fed him carrot juice and Pablum, comforted him when his pains grew worse, breathed air into his nostrils when he choked. At one point a party of drunks tried to force the Mortons off the back seat because they were taking up too-much room. "For the first time in my life," said gentle Farmer Morton, "I resisted...