Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although there is only one man above 6 ft. 2 in. on the starting five, Cousy's squad does not lack height. Not many coaches can afford the luxury of leaving two 6 ft. 5 in. players and one who stands 6 ft. 8 in. on the bench, but Cousy puts such an emphasis on speed and all-around ability that he prefers a good little man to a reasonably good...
...disturbing tendency to mix its uncertain economic measures and its contradictory morals. Wilson's government, for example, halted sales of arms and aircraft to South Africa, worth millions in hard cash, to protest against apartheid-a policy also invoked by the U.S., which perhaps can better afford it. But Labor has not curbed exports to Australia, whose restrictive immigration laws are based on color, to say nothing of trade with the inhuman rulers of Communist China...
...evening pajamas, and half the haut monde came in lace or sequined trousers. Not Liz. "I.wear slacks to work," she sniffed, threw on her gold lame sari by Balenciaga, and discovered that in spite of being so old-gown, she rated Table Numero Un between two boulevardiers who could afford to clothe her in pure gold: Aristotle Onassis and Baron Guy de Rothschild...
...charmer his signals are garbled. As Bates's second mate-to-be, Joanna Pettet is an indelibly enticing ingenue, but speech is her impediment. She says all the words correctly, but her avidly sincere delivery turns comic gold into lead. Poor Richard is not rich enough to afford a cast and director who do more to put the play under than over...
...prospective industrialists will surely pass us by." These sentiments may not be particularly noble; and that is the point. The path of justice and the road to riches have finally merged for a large segment of the population of this small, representative Mississippi town. Respectable Mississippians can no longer afford not to obey the Federal laws; certainly the Federal government can now enforce those laws...