Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individual denied equal access to a publicly owned facility, such as a park, swimming pool, hospital or library-but not a school-could file a complaint with the Attorney General. If the Attorney General decreed the individual unable to afford his own suit or in fear of physical or economic harm, the Attorney General could institute a civil suit to force state or local officials to desegregate such a facility...
...ablaze with tulips, but in one bare-walled room of The Hague's Princess Juliana Kazarne, the dominant colors were the army green of the ashtrays and the top-secret red of the wastebaskets. There were no flowers in the room for the simple reason that they afford a natural receptacle for hidden microphones. This week, as NATO's 15 Foreign Ministers gathered for their 15th spring meeting around the long, oval table in that closely guarded room, the most intimate secrets of the Western alliance were up for discussion...
This uneasy balance forces him to act more conservatively than most southern rights leaders. He refuses, for example, to participate in demonstrations, because "we can't afford the luxury of having our only lawyer in jail." Instead, he may observe the pickets from a distance offering advice about an appropriate method of picketing and warning demonstrators not to block doorways or pedestrian traffic. He will address a freedom rally only to explain the legal issues of the situation. His most intimate contact with the Movement is through the Executive Board...
...feet were firmly planted on the pave. When he remembers looking at James Joyce dining en famille in Michaud's on the corner of the Rue Jacob, he remembers also that he envied neither Joyce's genius nor his fame, but the tournedos the "Celtic crew" could afford to eat and he and Binney usually could not. On the one occasion they treated themselves to a Michaud dinner after a pony came home for him, the meal did not sit well. In a wistful, almost clumsy way, he tells how he was plagued by dark night thoughts. "Life...
...Alec Douglas Home has given up the advantage of surprise that the party in power usually holds. But he has very good reason to do so: everyone concedes that the Tories would lose badly in June, the only other possible date. Sir Alec, now 60 years old, cannot afford to give up. He knows that while there will always be a Tory party, there will be no place for him as leader if Labour takes over...