Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pull little Benny out of a well [after public uproar, Dr. Kris cancelled his $1,500 bill]. Only socialized medicine can curb the heartless and uncontrolled mass exploitation on the part of physicians and dentists in the U.S. and Canada. Things are getting so bad that poor people cannot afford to seek medical help, have a tooth fixed, or even fall into a well by accident, without losing their shirts to those professional sharks...
...Franco and Salazar, as for Britain and Scandinavia, the problem was whether they could afford to remain outside the Common Market (a super-customs union of France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux). If Spain and Portugal join, they are likely to be swamped with tariff-free industrial imports, cheaper and better than comparable products of their own; if they stay out, French and Italian farmers and merchants, operating behind the Common Market customs wall, may take away the European markets for such Spanish and Portuguese products as citrus fruits, cork, wine, sardines and pyrite...
Paging Krafft-Ebing. Built during the Florida boom, the pink hotel is "a Mistinguett, a Magda Lupescu among hotels-old and slightly raddled . . . waiting patiently for the chosen few who could afford its haughty hospitality." The raffish oddballs who people the Dennis-Erskine hotel are pretty special, and would have raised Krafft-Ebing's interest if not his eyebrows. There is T. J. Sturt III, a millionaire alcoholic who wears a pink girdle and phones random city fire departments to announce blazes of mysterious origin. There is seventyish L. Harvey Crull Jr., who puts under doors pamphlets announcing...
...expensive business, for even though he was rich by the standards of Roghudi, Mayor Nucera, a landholder and the nephew of the local archpriest, could not afford those three cigarettes a day. And in the end it proved in vain. Francesca passed by all the smoke rings with a preoccupied eye. Pietro raced off once again to Reggio and bought himself a book on how to write love letters. Francesca left his best efforts unanswered...
...Diamonds. The first diamond-point needles produced by a new, cost-cutting automated process were put on national sale by Walco Products, Inc. Walco will treble output to 3,000,000 needles a year, price them so low that makers of medium-priced hi-fi sets can afford to supply diamond needles as standard equipment. Retail price...