Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first EGA bill had been presented as a calculated and desperate risk; the second with an air of "you can't afford to quit now." Last week EC Administrator Paul Hoffman could point to a record of proud accomplishment. Western Europe's recovery "has exceeded our fondest hope," Hoffman told a joint congressional committee on foreign affairs. He asked just 'under $3 billion to keep EGA going on its winning way in its third year...
...Harvard class history, Eliot has made some frank self-revelations: "... I play a bad game of chess and like such games as poker, rummy and slippery Ann for low stakes ... I never bet because I never win ... I cannot afford yachting, but I should like to breed bull terriers. I am afraid of high places and cows...
...make things even more difficult, the Italian government hoped to buy the statue itself, did its best to force the selling price down to a figure it could afford. As soon as the Pieta was announced for sale, the government's council of fine arts promptly ruled that the Pieta might not leave Italy, thereby spiking any possible foreign offers, including a rumored $550,000 bid from the former White House envoy to the Vatican, Myron C. Taylor...
Bixler discussed the functions of his organization. He stressed the services which Chambers of Commerce afford businessmen...
Inflation has also made more people need scholarship help. A decade ago a family earning $10,000 could generally afford to son to Harvard. The Scholarship Committee frowned on any applicants who listed their family income as high as $5,000 to $6,000. Now some scholarship students are in a bracket twice this high and still very much in need of their stipend. The higher cost of education partially shows itself in the record number of applications turned in last month for next years awards. About 1200 undergraduates want scholarships, and 1200 applicants for the class of '54 want...