Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somewhat clubby and introspective press corps. What she does not know she can usually get from her two Vietnamese assistants, both wise in the labyrinthine ways of the country's politics. "I don't date," she says. "Men are a luxury I can't afford. I'm a woman journalist, and I'm competing with men. But I follow fashions-and General Khanh likes my clothes. He said so the other...
...that they build a ladies' room. Hence it was not aloofness that led Miss Klass to arrange for morning classes only and to bolt home before the daily faculty lunch. Her free time was made freer by the fact that she and her husband, also a teacher, could afford a superb household staff of" four. As a result, they were able to hold almost continuous open house in an attempt to cultivate the Afghans. She herself blazed paths never previously crossed by woman, marching into teahouses, where her entry literally stopped the music. They also, in their two-year...
...follower of Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, who still lives in self-confinement at the U.S. legation in Budapest, despite long-standing rumors that the regime would let him go free. Last week's sentences show that Kadar, despite his easing of religious restrictions, still cannot afford the resurgence of Catholic political influence...
Britain needs to import vast quantities of food and raw material to live, but it seems increasingly unable to afford the price of these imports. Although British exports are still among the world's highest and have risen steadily in absolute terms, the nation's share of world exports has been steadily declining. A measure of Britain's plight is that the Beatles' 1963 overseas earnings of $56 million was hailed as a major contribution to the balance of payments. Another measure is that in the past decade Britain has almost exactly reversed positions with Germany...
...avid desire of the white masochists to be openly reviled for the indignities and injustices they feel whites have visited upon the Negro. The playwright who falls into the trap of doing the reviling loses his intellectual honesty and ends up practicing prejudice in reverse. Secondly, a playwright cannot afford to fall into his own foaming rage. To translate experience into art, he must achieve the same detachment from his own wounds that a surgeon would show. Finally, he must be leary of topical sensationalism. A playwright whose moving finger writes only of the temper of his times will find...