Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retaliation against North Viet Nam in the manner of the Tonkin Gulf incident remained to be seen. But on no account could the U.S. afford to stop its recon flights...
...name for himself outside Minnesota by his part in the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, subject of New York Timesman Anthony Lewis' excellent book. Gideon's Trumpet. Gideon, an impoverished Florida convict, based an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on the ground that he could not afford counsel, in effect asked the court to extend to state courts the federal requirement that indigent felons have a right to free counsel. Florida's attorney general, in fighting the Gideon case, wrote the attorneys general of every other state asking them to write briefs protesting Gideon...
Britain's House of Commons may be the "best club in Europe," but many a member can hardly afford the honor of belonging. At the current M.P.'s pay of $4,900 a year, both Laborites and Tories can agree that it is a constant struggle just to keep looking neat, let alone statesmanlike. After a year's study of the problem, a special independent committee last week recommended salary increases of about 80% . It sounded like a staggering raise, but even the new salary of $9,100 a year (v. $30,000 for U.S. Congressmen...
...pattern of Saudi Arabia has alternated between a few years of mismanagement and waste by nearly illiterate King Saud and then a few years of austerity under Feisal as Premier-until the King felt he could afford to get rid of him again. When Feisal was last called back to power in 1962 for another spell of reform, he decided to get tough. He cut down Saud's privy purse 30%, to a paltry $20 million a year. Cautiously progressive, Feisal also earmarked $500 million for schools, hospitals, roads and water projects. He promised to introduce movies next year...
...than 70 years supported four churches -St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran, Schellsburg Methodist, Schellsburg Presbyterian, and St. John's Reformed (United Church of Christ). But since World War II, the community's population has steadily dropped. None of the congregations numbered more than 85; none could afford a full-time minister. When the Methodist church burned in 1945, the congregation took to renting the Presbyterian church for twice-a-month services. Three of four congregations have operated a Sunday school in common since...