Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second theory disagrees on this fundamental point. It argues that the Russians must have known that no U. S. president, for domestic political reasons, could afford to be 'soft on communists' during an election year. They must have known Johnson was planning to release the agenda for the new disarmament talks worked out between U. S. and Russian representatives the day the Warsaw Pact forces marched into Czechoslovakia. These were talks the Russians were reportedly very eager to start. The invasion was bound to delay ratification of the non-proliferation treaty which was waiting in the Senate as well...
Proud to Go. They were tears of triumph. By the time Arthur was eight, he was fascinated by tennis. On a salary of $2,400 a year, the elder Ashe was hard pressed to afford $30 rackets. Life became a good deal easier after Arthur met R. Walter Johnson, a Negro doctor from Lynchburg, Va., whose avocation was encouraging promising young Negro tennis players. Years before, Dr. Johnson had befriended a girl from Harlem named Althea Gibson and started her climb to two Wimbledon and two Forest Hills titles. Impressed by Arthur's raw talent, Dr. Johnson started...
President Pusey last winter told students angry with Harvard's silence on the Vietnam War, that the University collectively takes political stands only when threatened. 1968-69 may be the year when even by that cautious standard, Harvard can no longer afford political neutrality...
Students living off-campus were criticized for driving older residents out of the City because students living in communal apartments--with four or five of them contributing to the rent--can afford to pay more than a single family requiring the same space...
Merrill Lynch expressed "surprise" at the SEC action. "We are convinced that none of our people acted wrongfully, and we will defend our position vigorously," said a spokesman. For its own sake, the firm can afford to do no less. Merrill Lynch owes both its eminence and fortune to its success in wooing the small investor. To back the well-justified boast that it brought Wall Street to Main Street, the company points to its 1,400,000 individual customers, nearly one-third more than any other stockbroker has. Their trading, along with that of 3,000 institutional customers, last...