Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main evil of the age? Says Bachelor Williams: "Overpopulation. I don't understand why nothing is done to stop this spawning of children in families that can't even afford to have one. It is a crime-an awful crime...
...Utah Beach. Lawyer Hart has eight photogenic children and an attractive, politically savvy wife. Jane Briggs Hart pilots her own Beechcraft Bonanza, flies her husband around Michigan at campaign time, has money enough as the daughter of the late Walter 0. Briggs (auto bodies, the Detroit Tigers) to afford the airplane and the campaigns...
...goes without saying, then, that the Crimson cannot afford a loss tonight. The Eagles are perhaps the most improved hockey team in the East, as is evidenced by their 3-1 upset of St. Lawrence last Saturday night. In its last game with the varsity, B.C. led 3 to 2 at the end of the second period, only to have Crimson captain Bob Cleary and his line break loose for five goals...
...Pacific Northwest, which is crying for more cheap electricity, a big bloc of voters believes that only the Government can afford the big dams the region wants. In the 1956 elections, the Republicans took a beating because of their partnership policy and stress on private power. Yet last week the Northwest was up in arms over a Federal Power Commission recommendation for a huge dam that probably only the Government could build. Reason: it would kill the fish Northwesterners love as much as kilowatts...
...drafty shack with primitive plumbing in a shabby section of Cedartown, Ga., Lee Cantrell, 35, last week joyfully moved his wife and two children into a brand-new modern house. Yet Cantrell, a $2,350-a-year clerk who had been living in the only place he could afford, will pay only $23 a month plus utilities, less rent than he paid for his shack. Reason: the new house is one of 13 newly scattered through Cedartown (pop. 10,000) under the first such Government experiment in the U.S. The results may bring a great change in planning...