Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could never see far enough to know for sure where the padding left off and the girl began. Now, at long last, it is all quite clear. Thanks to the Nude Look, there is barely an undergarment around that will fudge the facts of the matter, afford a torso in distress the hidden means by which private deficits have been passing, through the centuries, for assets in public...
With such depth to draw on, the Met can afford to place quality first. The day when donors' private collections were hung in toto is past; the Met insists on constantly upgrading as finer examples become available. Also past are the days when objects were crammed together in unlighted Victorian display cases. To catch the eye of the young (1,000 schoolchildren a day visit the Met by appointment), the museum inaugurated one of the first children's museums in the U.S., with spinning color charts, and a movie of unwrapping a mummy that fascinates even adults...
...commune to a bachelor pad of his own a few blocks away. It is a yellow brick Federal house, with a staff of three for the dishes and furnace. It also has 16 rooms and 16 fireplaces and, consequently, more Oliver Smith sets than even David Merrick could afford...
...your rocking chair," he said. "But I am going to use every rostrum to tell the people that we can no longer afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child." He evoked the memory of one of his great-grandfathers, declaring that because of low teacher salaries his ancestor, even though he was the third president of Baylor University, had suffered financial penury, had had to borrow $300 from Sam Houston "at 8% interest...
...supremacy as the fountainhead is under serious challenge by the paperbacks. Once little more than literary scavengers prospecting the bestseller lists for low-risk, high-return reprints, the paperback publishers have risen on soaring profits to the estate of a wealthy and indiscriminate buyer that no writer can afford to ignore...