Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike Hughes, I must confess to a vulgar taste. When I visit the National Gallery I don't seek modern American artists like Jackson Pollock, or modern European artists either. I find myself turning to the exhibits of Dutch and Flemish painters. Rembrandt could afford to be representational, but then he lived 300 years...
...British colony). The black nationalists were demanding independence in twelve months; the whites insisted that 23 months were necessary. Both sides had rejected Chairman Ivor Richard's compromise proposal of a 15-month transition. Meanwhile, Smith had flown back to Salisbury on Nov. 3, declaring he could not afford to waste time sitting around Geneva "twiddling my thumbs." In what seemed a calculated insult to the blacks, he left negotiations for his government in the hands of Rhodesia's sarcastic and hard-lining Foreign Minister, Pieter van der Byl. By last week, it was becoming increasingly clear that...
...living expenses paid. Although the small amount which he had hoped to receive as remuneration for his time was certainly nothing more than a pittance, Black CAST, under the auspices of the Harvard Dramatic Club and Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center, sadly could not even begin to afford to offer an honorarium...
...Friday afternoon, the sky is blue. Some wine would be nice, but you can't afford an import and don't understand all those years and foreign names, anyway...
This type of loan program "is a convenience," he said. "You're dealing with people that are not saying, 'We can't afford it,' but rather those who are saying 'We'd rather not afford it right...