Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satellites-cherishing their new, limited but heady independence-do not particularly want to give Moscow a chance once again to play the supreme arbiter of the Communist world. They relish a situation in which their support is solicited and paid for-a situation in which even Cuba can afford to play both Communist camps against each other...
...year decline in U.S. aircraft exports, and the efficient U.S. coal industry still undersells European coal right in Europe. Though most of the U.S. exports are sought because they are clearly superior in performance, an increasing amount is sold because much of the rest of the world can now afford U.S. luxuries; Iowa's Amana Refrigeration Co. reported a 50% first-quarter export gain, chiefly on the sales abroad of its air conditioners...
...pasture to sere pasture, working literally like dogs. In the evening they eat curd and flatbread. At night they sleep sometimes in rude stone huts, sometimes on the mountainsides among their sheep. They live for their sheep-they would die without them. They are poor, so poor they cannot afford to make even one mistake...
...modern lecture halls at the University of Michigan have a row of left-handed desks; can we afford to be outdoner
Wigs & Skins. Honzik's parable of the praying mantises, in fact, is even more apt in many parts of the Communist world. Communist China is busily shipping Peking ducks to Havana, and in return is importing giant Cuban-bred bullfrogs for the few Chinese gourmets who can still afford them. Red China's trade may become even more exotic. A French medical journal reported last week that Red China will export, in addition to hair for wigs and skins for sausages, " 'parts of human anatomy,' vulgarly known as 'stiffs.' " The journal did not comment...