Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like to continue this new service to off-campus houses next year, but we won't be able to afford it," Mrs. Bunting said...
...said they place undue pressure on the market and are willing to pay higher rents than Cambridge residents can afford. According to his statistics, Cambridge has 35,000 living units, 26,000 of which are rentals. Of these, 15,000 are occupied by transients, Hayes' letter said...
...insensitivity to all beyond a narrow purview-is practically disappearing before the realities of modern U.S. life. It is hard to be narrow when TV shows yesterday's battles in Viet Nam, when one out of five Americans moves each year, when the small-towner can often afford the same cars for his garage or the same clothes for his wife (Norells or Balenciagas) as the old-rich East, when Ohioans or Kansans or Oklahomans routinely take a winter vacation in the Bahamas or cruise the Greek islands in summer...
...press conference last week, Johnson implicitly acknowledged Moscow's-and his-dilemma by noting, "There are only two governments in the world that now appear opposed to ending the war." But, given the intransigence of Hanoi and Peking, the President pointed out, the U.S. cannot afford the gesture of suspending bombing raids on the North as a step toward peace talks. "We have had two pauses," he snapped. During both, "our boys sat there and watched" while the enemy "threw his hand grenades, lobbed his mortars, and killed our Marines, our airmen, our Army soldiers." Added the President...
...doing the laundry, and continued helping out for several weeks after the woman died. Another grateful recipient of Fish's aid was a woman returning home from the hospital after an operation. When she told Fish that she needed someone to clean her house but couldn't afford to hire help, a parishioner of Good Shepherd, who had a maid to do her own housecleaning, showed up to scrub the floors and wash windows. Fish will undertake any reasonable request: after one tearful teen-ager asked Fish to help explain a poor report card to his father...