Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggest that atomic warfare, like chemical warfare, is a thing of the past? Neither side dares to use the atom bomb . . . [Then] what is Stalin waiting for? Only for us to bankrupt ourselves to the point where we can no longer afford to keep an army in the field. Then he (or his heirs) will move-but fast. How can we offset this? 1) By having fighting forces which will live a Spartan existence; 2) By having civilians who will live a Spartan existence...
...Damle, a special emissary from India's Ministry of Food and Agriculture, was on his way home from Peking last week after concluding a deal whereby half-starving China agreed to sell famine-ridden India some 500,000 tons of milo and rice (although China could ill afford the gesture-floods and drought had destroyed 20 million acres of Chinese crops...
...vote was a victory for Puerto Rico's first popularly elected governor, Luis Munoz Marin, who has preached to the islanders that independence is an "obsolescent idea," that their future lies in continuing association with the U.S. Overpopulated Puerto Rico, he maintains, can not afford to cut loose from the U.S., can not survive and rehabilitate itself without protection of U.S. tariffs and subsidies...
...Harvard athletics," the semi-official Bulletin notes, "are not to be dependent upon football gate receipts or the profits of any sport . . . The new director of athletics will not be responsible for 'balancing the budget' . . . Obviously, however, there is a limit to what Harvard can afford in this direction, but within reasonable bounds the director of athletics has as his duty the building of a good program...
Clad in white cotton coveralls, and wearing masks to filter out contaminated dust, the decontamination crew went to work. The patrolman moved into a company dormitory, and for the next six days his house got the kind of spring cleaning that many a homeowner wishes he could afford. Inside & out, everything (including the unhappy patrolman) was swabbed down with soap & water. Later, all the cleaning gear was carefully collected, carted off and tossed on to a restricted disposal dump...