Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stay home and watch the tube." Judge Robert Cannon, counsel for the Major League Players' Association, says it's all the fault of the baseball fan's economy. "Unemployment is high and money is scarce," says Cannon. "The guy with the big family can't afford to take his kids to the ball game as often as he once did." And Milwaukee's John McHale blames it on the weather. "It was 44° here this morning," he said recently, "I was in Chicago yesterday, and it was the coldest day since eighteen-something...
...these Sino-Soviet exchanges were carefully framed to put the blame for the split on the other fellow. Obviously the Chinese never expected the Moscow meeting to succeed, insisted on it merely to embarrass the Soviets. The Kremlin, in turn, could not afford to appear intractable. At week's end the Peking press suggested that perhaps a few of the Sino-Soviet differences could be settled soon, while others could be deferred till later. This simply meant that the Chinese were ready to prolong the quarrel indefinitely. "If the differences cannot be resolved this year," said Peking blandly, "they...
McCormack should go. He is a liability the President, and those who support the Administration's legislative aims, cannot afford. The current controversy over the Rules Committee is only one example of his ineptitude...
...today than it has been for the last 1,000 years." The Antioch patriarchate, fairly well supplied with funds by Syrian and Lebanese emigrants to the U.S., is busily restoring old churches and building new ones, has an active youth movement called the St. Nicholas So ciety, and can afford to give many of its new priests graduate training...
Monarchs, tyrants and oligarchs have over the ages nurtured oppression, sponsored scourges, incest and hemophilia. But they also taught the world the fine art of luxury, leaving behind them a landscape dotted with opulent castles, lodges and retreats no latter-day head of state (even if he could afford it) would ever be permitted to call home...