Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cooking involves taking turns in preparing a buffetstyle breakfast, marketing, and cooking dinner--the one common meal of the day. Within budget limitations, co-op residents can usually afford to eat one egg, three glasses of milk and a glass of juice per day, as well as bread, peanut butter and jelly from their supply of staples. Some buy lunch in the Square--thereby considerably adding to their expenses--but most manage to get along on the house staples...
Fortunately, there is little reason to fear this. Although the Overseers made clear in their recent report that new houses cannot be financed in the once grand style, they also emphasized that the University cannot afford to build sore thumbs...
...rose only once-when he detached himself from implied Republican campaign charges that the Democrats are a "war party." Said he: "They may be thinking of something that I don't know anything about, but I don't believe that when America gets into war we can afford to call it anything...
...only hard G.O.P. organization work, says Feikens, can prevent a slip like the fiasco of 1954, when Williams won by 253,000 votes over Republican Donald Leonard. "If we're going to get down on the mat with these guys," says John Feikens, "we can no longer afford part-time politics...
...Jersey to a quiet family life (a wife and three-month-old son), playing golf, driving hot-rods at breakneck speeds. But a practical joke is still his special maggot: he once dived into a Miami millionaire's pool wearing a $200 suit just to prove he "could afford...