Word: affording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cornell must win this game to stay in the Ivy League race, and Yale cannot really afford to lose any of its early games since its schedule becomes much more difficult later in the season...
...only thing between the bulldozer and the birds is a suit filed by an odd coalition of six conservation groups and the N.A.A.C.P. Seeking a federal court injunction, they charge that the golf course would be de facto segregated because few local Negroes could afford the $100-a-year membership, plus fees. The case will be heard this month, but thus far the vision of green fairways seems to outrank either the black man's cause or the yellow bird's fate...
...Department agent detailed plans of last year's Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Intelligence strategists, Tully asserts, then imaginatively suggested making the plans public in an effort to force a Russian change of heart. As Tully tells it, Washington overruled the idea on grounds that the U.S. could not afford such dangerous brinkmanship during the Viet...
...closing the store, the wife spoke up first. "We are opposed to the war, opposed to the killing and all that, but I don't see how closing the store will stop the war. And besides you are asking my husband to sacrifice his income and we can't afford...
...decision to shut down for only part of the day was based on the on going nature of the Moratorium." acting general manager Al Zavelle said last night. "If we closed for a whole day in October, but deiced we could not afford to close for two days in November and three in December, we would be doing the peace movement a disservice by not maintaining a consistent level of commitment...