Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, the Brattle labors under tremendous handicaps, of which its size, the lack of public spirit among the motion picture companies, and nitrate film are perhaps the biggest. Because it seats only about 350 people, the Brattle cannot afford to pay the prices asked by distributors of some of the major foreign films, which these days are almost as costly as the first-run Hollywood products. Most such distributors would rather hold the film for years in the hope that it will be bought by one of the big Boston art theatres, which can offer a hundred times...
...admitted, however, that neither the Eagles nor the Crimson can really afford to lose a game, since Clarkson and St. Lawrence have only suffered three losses between them...
...Afford to Lose...
...which Real Truth magazine cynically subscribes in its impious operations, "and the truth shall make you free." The kind of truth that Real Truth publishes has made its publisher (Steve Cochran) free of financial worries. Once a nickel-and-dime pressagent for a string of strippers, he can now afford to have the Rolls brought round to a Park Avenue address. But then all at once circulation, and with it Cochran's elegant new world, begins to crumble. "What we need," he storms at his harried staff, "is a really big piece of dirt...
...past ten years, Britain has had nine Defense Ministers. Despite the heavy turnover and some hard tries by able men, Britain's defense efforts have been more expensive than the nation can afford, and less successful than most military men would like. Last week Prime Minister Harold Macmillan granted sweeping powers to his new Defense Minister, red-haired Duncan Sandys (pronounced sands), 49, to carry out "substantial reduction in expenditure and manpower...