Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast and vital place, bloodily won, in the American system. Yet for an abundance of reasons-aging leadership, corruption, and inability to keep pace with technological progress, above all the fact that it has often subordinated public welfare to private gain-labor is doing what it can least afford. It is losing public support to a critical degree...
Cards to Chicken. Today, as Mrs. Post prophesied, the mix-up is on in high gear. There is still a society where the placement of finger bowls is of some concern, but the more people who can afford-or choose to afford-finger bowls, the less important an issue their exact placement becomes. Though manners themselves are still an issue, they are a different set of manners for an increasingly classless society. Where once it mattered how to present a visiting card, now the question is how a guest in evening dress should handle barbecued chicken. Though contemporary society neither...
...toward Cuba. There are people in the Administration who regard the Soviet presence with some equanimity, and even argue that it is necessary to take Khrushchev's sensibilities into account, and to understand that having already lost face in the Communist bloc by his missile withdrawal, he cannot afford to lose more by pulling his troops out under U.S. pressure. Khrushchev promised to withdraw them in "due course." and last week President Kennedy instructed Ambassador Foy Kohler to find out. in no combative way. what the Russians regard as "due course." The Administration hopes that Khrushchev will eventually call...
...Washington with him, paid him $20 a week to caddy and another $15 a week as a copy boy at the Washington Post, which McLean happened to own. By the age of 20, Povich was the Post's sports editor. The Post was poor then and could not afford the ghost celebrities-Babe Ruth, John McGraw, Adela Rogers St. Johns-that its competition featured. So Povich composed an ad: "Colonel Charles Lindbergh, Vice President Charles Dawes, Aimee Semple McPherson and Charles Chaplin will not cover the World Series for the Post! This baseball classic will be covered...
...HCUA will also ask the University for a full-time secretary to help student organizations. It is especially concerned about recently formed activities which need but cannot afford a commercial secretarial service...