Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After removing all of the sycamore trees along Memorial Drive, the MDC decides to abandon its plans for an underpass, and promises to plant "as many sturdy saplings as we can afford" to beautify the drive. "We live in an age of progress," says one commissioner...
...fragments of anger and malice, instead of calculated dramatic climaxes, Marathon '33 acquires the conviction of life as naturally as a city street gathers soot. With this production, Actors Studio Theater at least suggests, if it does not sustain, new directions for a theater that can no longer afford to stand still in the quicksand of Broadway formula...
...African countries, with a side trip to Albania, Red China's Eastern European satellite, and on the way home, a stop over in Pakistan. Competing with Moscow for friends among underdeveloped nations, Chou evidently wants to establish the yellow man's burden, even if China cannot exactly afford to pick it up. Among Afro-Asian countries, Peking's prestige has slumped badly as a result of its refusal to sign the nuclear test ban. In Africa alone, 17 of 33 nations voted last October to deny Red China a seat in the U.N., while only...
Many adult candidates for orthodontics are young married women who decide that the work will greatly improve their looks. Others are people aged 40 to 60 who should have had it done as children, when it was not available or their parents could not afford it. In the vast majority, the damage caused by a bad bite increases over the years, and adults must have the job done lest they lose all their teeth prematurely or suffer serious disease of the jawbones...
...these measures can only end housing segregation to a limited degree. Most Negroes cannot afford to move to the suburbs. These people are not about to move into areas now inhabited by whites, unless such areas are adjacent to the ghetto. No one has yet found a way to get whites to move into an all-Negro neighborhood...