Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support the price of raw cotton to bolster the income of cotton farmers; subsidize the export of U.S. cotton by paying a fixed sum per pound to American exporters so they can match the much-lower world price; subsidize U.S. textile mills by paying them enough so they can afford to buy the price-supported, export-subsidized domestic stuff...
Blake singled out highway planners for special criticism. "We can no longer afford to have our cities, in effect, shaped or mis-shaped by technicians whose sole interest is getting so many thousands of cars per hour from one place to another...
...United States cannot afford to insist on isolation of all military regimes. A coup in Brazil, for example, could not profitably be opposed for long. But there is a difference between unwilling tolerance and declared acceptance of military dictatorship. If the United States, after 190 years of democratic government cannot distinguish between democracy and dictatorship, Latin American nations can hardly be expected to do so. If they cannot, there is slight hope for the peaceful and democratic change which U.S. policy should hope to foster...
Fast Star. These days the good actresses leave Hollywood, and Pat Neal left long ago. At 38, she can afford to space out her pictures by long months at home on her pocket farm located in Buckinghamshire, England. "We have central heating," she says proudly, "and two cans." The house is surrounded by 200 rosebushes, all tended by a very tall gardener with thorn scratches on his hands and a look of perdurable tweed. This turns out to be Patricia Neal's husband, Roald Dahl, whose dry and shivery stories have been collected in volumes called Someone Like...
...intelligence than real depth. As production, it stunningly displays its homework in the solid sweep of Norman arches, the mist-and-heath-er greens of old England. But in the end it holds interest chiefly as a pageant so prodigally endowed with talent that it can, for example, afford to squander Sir John Gielgud in a minor role as Louis VII of France...