Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreading Generalissimo Franco's entry into Madrid, the new junta could almost welcome it. Dr. Negrin had agreed to surrender on the one condition of no reprisals. The new Government would not care much about whether the Negrin Communist and Socialist supporters escaped reprisals. Generalissimo Franco could well afford to promise to save the necks of all others. But whether General Casado would be able to arrange an honorable surrender or be forced into a last-ditch stand, it was obvious that the Spanish Republic had ceased to exist...
...tell me that Harvard can't afford to pay the $18 we have asked for; it is one of the richest organizations in the country. I think they'll give us a raise because they're getting scared that they'll lose rich endowments because of their anti-labor policy...
...better indices of his progress. These are developed by informal discussion. Hence the figure of eleven students taking the Bliss exam is no vital index of their inspiration. We would learn something from a course in or a regimentation of the study of American Civilization; but can we afford to sacrifice our voluntary self education? Samuel S. Binnian...
...Camps. If almost nobody in the U. S. wants war, almost nobody in the U. S. as of February 1939 wants to be unprepared for it. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann last week: "There is no responsible party which thinks the United States can afford to be weak in a world where all other nations are armed to the teeth...
...Cabinet intact, that he announced that the Imredy racial laws and land reform schemes would not be scrapped. But the Jewish legislation was expected to be modified in application if not on the statute books and land reform would probably be slowed up. Weak Hungary could not afford to slap the Nazis directly in the face by abandoning the bills. The new Government was expected outwardly to comply with Nazi wishes, but at the same time quietly to sabotage the laws' effectiveness...