Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More than 165,000 new Cuban refugees include 13.000 children without parents. An estimated 35% of all mothers in big cities cannot afford prenatal care...
...Lion. Africa is for the Africans; Connecticut is for people who can afford it. That's the moral of this movie, and it doesn't make much sense. But then the movie wasn't meant to make sense; it was meant to make money. It has one major star (William Holden), one good actor (Trevor Howard), one competent director (Jack Cardiff, who did Sons and Lovers), infinitudes of the usual fauna and some spectacular shots of Mount Kenya. It also has a portly, natty, sophisticated Hollywood lion named Zamba, who looks as though he came from F.A.O...
...idea draws a lot of opposition just because it's new; the original Peace Corps bill would not have passed except for Sargent Shriver's lobbying. The administration can't afford to arouse any unnecessary confusion or resentment," he said...
...publishers have offered a settlement that would add $9.20 per man in benefits and pay during the contract's two-year term-and $9,000,000 a year to the newspapers' labor costs. The publishers claim that they cannot afford even this sum, that they would have to ask more money from readers or advertisers. Both are dubious sources of extra revenue...
...Poet Philip Larkin dreamed of becoming a famous novelist and living on the Riviera "like Somerset Maugham." But after two novels flopped in Britain, he decided he was better suited to poetry, confessing later: "It's like moving to a much smaller house after finding you cannot afford to keep up the mansion of your dreams." Larkin has become one of England's finest poets, but he may have deserted his mansion too soon. The second novel, A Girl in Winter, has now been published in the U.S.; and while it is no sumptuous Versailles of literature...