Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fuss was Sir David's attempt to increase the teachers' Superannuation Account (pension fund) by $840 million. The additional 1% salary levy he wanted to impose would cost the average teacher $20 a year, and the schoolmasters felt that this was a cut they could ill afford. Their minimum paychecks, they pointed out, were already a good $3 under the national average ($26.46). "We are sunk so low," protested one Scotsman, "that our sacred profession . . . has become the subject of cheap political jokes and material for the cartoonist...
...Republican 'trickle-down' tax philosophy of Andrew Mellon and the 19205 was resurrected in the 1954 G.O.P. tax bill recommended by the Eisenhower Administration and passed by the G.O.P. 83rd Congress. For every dollar of tax relief to stockholders, the Eisenhower Administration felt we could only 'afford' to give less than a nickel to working mothers, a little over a penny to families with foster children, less than a dime to families with heavy medical expense...
...Emil Zatopek. During the World Youth Festival at Bucharest in 1953, the two men became friends. An unspectacular performer at Bucharest, Stephens came home and began to break Australian records right and left. Often the races were run in foul weather, and often Dave ran barefoot. He could not afford track shoes...
...fine print in the terms for a $200 million loan, and the U.S. State Department steeled itself to ask Congress for perhaps $200 million more, spread out over the ten years that the dam will take to build. With hopes for another loan from Britain, Premier Nasser can afford to turn down the Russian offer and still stop up the Nile with a mighty wall, not of concrete but of granite blocks, just like the ones that pyramids were made...
...never saw real money. He was constantly in debt to the coal company. When shopping was needed, Dad would go to a window and draw little brass tokens against his account. They could only be spent at the company store. His humorous expression was, 'I can't afford...