Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Piedmont was built for a king (Sardinia's Victor Amadeus II), and kings still architecturally outdo presidents. Even the summer house on the Cote d'Azur was once the plaisance of Belgium's Leopold II. the last of his country's kings who could afford to act like one. The Agnellis, though new to the Kennedy circle, seem dear friends already; it was on their yacht (82 ft.) that Jackie spent many hours of her Italian holiday last August...
These centers would provide surrounding educational institutions with expensive specialized facilities such as laboratories, research libraries, and programs in the cultures and languages of underdeveloped countries, which each school by itself would not, be able to afford. She expressed the hope that such centers would raise the quality of education in participating institutions by enabling outstanding scholars to devote their total available teaching time to the specialized field of their choice...
...Congresswoman observed, "the arguments used against general education programs are never used against education by the Pentagon: 'Segregation-Integration,' 'church-state issue,' 'Federal control', 'this is just the beginning,' 'it's letting the camel get its nose into the tent', 'we can't afford it-taxes are too high'--such arguments are never heard. The money is appropriated with little question...
They called it the "Pearl of the Atlantic." and, as it usually is with pearls, only the rich could afford it. After Dictator Juan D. Perón came to power in 1943, he turned over several fashionable hotels to labor unions and nationalized the huge gambling casino. From 320,000 visitors in 1939, the resort was soon drawing more than 1,000,000 each year...
...together an amazing amount of the nation (see chart). In the East they include De Witt Clinton's historic New York State Barge Canal, the Hudson River, and the sheltered coastal route that amateur sailors take south to Florida. In the U.S. heartland, the Mississippi and its tributaries afford unbroken passage from Pittsburgh west to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and from Minneapolis south to the Gulf. In the Far West, locks built into the McNary and Bonneville dams allow riverboats to chuff through bleak coulees 365 miles into the interior of Washington...