Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eastern Europe. But if it's important, France understands, and by all means will go along with anything the Germans can persuade the U.S. and Britain to initiate with Moscow. Defense? A touchy issue there is no need discussing now, since MLF is "in the refrigerator." France can afford to "wait, serene," as a French spokesman put it afterwards...
...essential as crepe paper at any successful prom, lost lenses simply disappear. Otherwise, they get wafted down drains, into swimming pools, off ski slopes. They are lodged between the pages of books, the coils of radiators, the seats in movie houses, never again to be seen or to afford sight. Moreover, the new lenses easily get stuck, one inside the other. The wife of a Peace Corpsman stationed in Peru thought she had lost one lens and waited three months for the replacement to arrive from New York, only to discover that the one she had been wearing all along...
...three decades back. It was the culmination of the process by which, as Sociologist Denney points out, the U.S. became the first nation to transform children from "a family asset as labor to a family liability as student-consumer." That liability is one that the U.S. seems willing to afford; it has created a flourishing subculture whose goals, heroes, styles and customs are, in the teen-age word of admiration, "tough...
...doing business." He has associated himself with Black Africa's economic aspirations, underwritten nationalistic-development schemes. During Malawi's independence celebrations last July, Rowland smiled tolerantly from his dignitary's seat while Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda roared that "all businessmen are crooks." Rowland could afford to smile. Malawi is dependent on railway and lake transportation systems that are controlled by Lonrho...
...Thors, 61, Iceland's ruddy, affable diplomat of all work, delegate to the U.N., Ambassador to the U.S., Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Canada, Minister to Cuba, and foremost salesman of home-grown codfish, who, whenever fellow diplomats asked how come so many jobs, smilingly replied: "My country cannot afford more ambassadors": of internal hemorrhaging two weeks after the death of Brother Olafur Thors, Iceland's five-time Prime Minister and leading statesman; in Washington...