Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bringing the war "to a quicker conclusion." In Concord, where Nixon gave his first major speech of the campaign, he held L.B.J. to account not only for failure to end the war, but for crime, racial tensions and economic problems as well. "I don't think America can afford four more years of Lyndon Johnson in the White House," he said...
...sides waited and carefully watched each other. The U.S., slightly apprehensive, was ready for an attack?and even hopeful that Giap would strike. As for Giap, he no doubt was calculating the gains and losses of his big week in South Viet Nam, deciding whether he could afford another bold venture...
Still more important is the growing triumph of the minimal outlook. As artists are increasingly dedicated to the belief that "less is more," they are in stinctively drawn to those raw materials that least impede the eye. The clear sculpture that results is meant to afford the viewer a purely sensual delight in the infinite variety of light, its perpetual diffractions, spontaneous diffusions and prismatic permutations that can go on forever...
Motives have changed. Said Cowan: "We joined the Peace Corps because we thought it would afford us a means of helping developing nations without imposing the United States' political and cultural values on them." Strange indeed, if "we" were the only ones...
There were more concrete reasons for dissatisfaction with house living. The overcrowded dorms were hardly the ideal place to write a thesis. And, with the building of the fourth House, the argument that Radcliffe could not afford to lose the income lost credence--clearly the Administration's commitment to the house system was philosophical not financial...