Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with cyclonic vigor. "He feels that he has to make the public aware of the man who's in the office now and to show them a man who looks like he can do the job," explained an aide. "Beyond that, he feels that his own Administration cannot afford to be anything less than energetic and productive...
Added the report: Negroes able to afford better homes are prevented form buying them by dealers' methods ranging from outright refusal to deal with Negroes to endless delays of a Negro's housing request. Most brokers, however, simply fabricate non-discriminatory objections to otherwise qualified Negro applicants, or refuse to tell them about the full range of available housing...
...Indian government cannot afford to assume this, he said, and in a country with a per capita income of only $100 a year, the purchase of expensive war materials "hurts in the real physical sense of deprivation and hunger." This expense could also endanger the success of Indian's economic development program, unless she receives sufficient aid from abroad...
...obvious that against B.U. the Crimson couldn't afford to let up for a minute. Junior forwards Randy Cross and Sheridan James were deadly marksmen from the outside and kangaroos under the boards. Guard Ken Leary, (5 ft. 7 in.), thought he was Bob Cousy--and could do almost anything with a basketball. Dick Moreshead (6 ft. 9 in.) was graceless--but Brobdingnagian...
...general German mourning over the assassination of President Kennedy could cancel only a single night's perform ance. Tickets sold quickly for as much as $125 a performance, and though a feeble Meistersinger drew grouchy reactions from the press, the patrons of opera who could afford to attend found the experience a joy reminiscent of la belle epoque...