Word: apt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will contribute more heat, and they may do worse. Neutrons often change a metal's structure in such a way that its electrical resistance increases. If this should happen suddenly to a hydrogen-cooled coil while a monstrous current is flowing through it, much of the apparatus is apt to vaporize on the spot...
Jews often tip the mailman to bring the return reply to them, rather than to the concierge, who is usually a Communist agent and apt to use the knowledge to grab the applicant's apartment or his possessions. When finally ready to go, emigrants must surrender all money and documents, and submit an inventory of their permitted 154 lbs. of luggage (132 lbs. for children). Furniture may not be taken with them, and it may not be legally sold. The emigrants are required to write and often to rewrite statements that they had never had it so good...
...husband will no longer be able to be unfaithful with impunity, nor will he be allowed to take his bastard children into the house as if they were legitimate, or repudiate his wife at whim. A married man, seen too often in the company of an unmarried woman, is apt to find himself having to explain his conduct to the authorities. In the first version of the bill, divorce was outlawed entirely. But on this point, Mme. Ngo did not quite get her way: the Assembly passed an amendment empowering the President to grant divorces in cases where marriage...
...electronic gadgets to prevent identification) made for excitement. The show was a sample of a growing form of radio journalism, used in the past on CBS's report on juvenile delinquency and on the Murphy-Galindez case. Despite its authenticity and immediacy, the trouble with such reporting is apt to be lack of evaluation. The Business of Sex raised but never attempted to answer the crucial question of whether the use of prostitutes in business is "an isolated phenomenon" or so widespread as to indicate "a general loosening of ethical conduct...
...Belief in Disbelief. In the first third of the book, Author Griffith offers his autobiographical press pass to American life. Seattle-born, Griffith had a boardinghouse boyhood more apt for the pen of Dickens than the brush of Norman Rockwell. Entering the University of Washington in the Depression year of 1932 as a journalism student, he learned, he admits, precious little about journalism or anything else. In such "vast, endearingly inadequate academic ballparks," Griffith argues, "the indulgent curse of mediocrity in American life begins...