Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent weeks a traveler who asked a Teheran taxi driver to take him to the Seven-Year-Plan Building was likely to meet the question, "You mean the Seven-Hundred-Year Plan?" O.C.I., recognizing that its experts were costing the hard-pressed Iranian government money that it could ill afford to spend, two months ago offered to end the contract. Last week the government accepted the offer...
Chief lesson for all hands involved in last week's announcement of failure: U.S. business and government can possibly afford to fight at home, but abroad they cannot afford to ignore each other...
...instance," he said, "India now needs several million tons or grain. We would be crazy not to give it to her; not to buy friendship, but to illustrate the humanitarianism we claim. We certainly can more than afford...
Besides these, of course, there were the players to make the system move. The T may afford greater deception, and the short punt formation may be more suitable for passing. But for an offense based on solid football fundamentals, nothing can touch the Michigan single wing...
...Carlo and The Flying Dutchman, which were never highly profitable, Bing should have gambled the same money on a more contemporary work, such as Alban Berg's formidable atonal opera, Wozzeck. Bing's answer to that is that he would like to do Wozzeck, but he cannot afford right now to overlook the fate of another contemporary opera, Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, which was withdrawn after two seasons, so offended one opera lover that he spat in the box-office window. (Says John Gutman: "Whenever I mention Wozzeck, Bing threatens...