Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bold, creative, constructive leadership"-and brought forth a scheme for nullifying the rule of law on civil rights issues. Collins urged the U.S. Congress, in its closing hours, to pass a "moratorium" law, forbidding U.S. courts to issue desegregation orders for the next six months. Collins could well afford to spend his time advising on national civil rights policy. He has no desegregation problem at home; there is not the slightest possibility that a Negro child will attend school with whites in Florida this year...
...Supreme Court and the nation's foremost man scout. Occasion: a three-day hike from Lake Ozette to Lapush, paced by the Justice-leading his wife, daughter, twelve newsmen and 55 Boone companions-in demonstration against local outcries for a tourist-drawing coastal highway. "Can we afford to lose the last such place where a person can get away from it all and savor what is true to nature as it was thousands of years ago?" Mr. Justice Douglas asked the group, and those who had not been convinced at the outset admitted that they had been converted...
...make some adjustments. They brought their own hot peppers with them, but had to give up the usual diet of beans, goat meat and tortillas for American fare. They were amazed at the plentiful supply of milk, often drank more at one sitting than their families back home could afford in a whole week. Little League doctors found them in fine health. Not one had a cavity in his teeth. None of the youngsters could speak English, but they got along famously with U.S. boys...
...sick receiving homes sprang up years ago when an enterprising Singapore Chinese noticed that poorer people, who could not afford a funeral parlor, had to put coffins on the sidewalk for the three to five days of mourning. He also noticed that Chinese refused to go to hospitals as they got old. The sick receiving homes take a cut from the contractors who provide the bands, the lantern and banner carriers for each funeral, and the professional mourners whose pay is graded by the length and depth of their moans...
...important five-year pact with the United Auto Workers in 1950, has been burned. In the first half of 1958, when earnings dropped by $147,700,000, its labor bill went up per worker, because of a cost-of-living rise. G.M., U.S. Steel and the other giants can afford such bumps as the price of labor peace. Many a smaller company cannot. Says a spokesman for another automaker: "The ups and downs of the business cycle have a less basic effect on G.M. than on us. We feel better with a contract negotiated every year or two years...