Word: apt
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...that was in 1843. The Americans who have followed General Napier into Asia are far more apt to say peccavi without intending a pun. Vast numbers of well-meaning Americans are instantly ready to feel guilty and inadequate about their nation's role among the "underdeveloped" peoples. This book is a slashing, oversimplified, often silly and yet not-to-be-ignored attack on the men and women who have taken up the white man's burden for the U.S. in Southeast Asia...
Kissinger told an audience at the first public lecture of the Committee to Study Disarmament that "we are apt to have a war before we have disarmament," but agreed that the United States should negotiate at all times...
...Britons of all stripes were united in deploring Randolph's blurt. "A grave indiscretion," cried the Daily Herald in a front-page editorial. "It is perhaps apt to recall," said the Star, "that Mr. Randolph Churchill once wrote that no one was ever given corporal punishment in the Churchill home . . . Mr. Macmillan may be excused for regarding that as a major sin of omission, for Randolph has been a naughty boy . . . Bend over, Randolph...
...British pull out, King Hussein will fall. If they take Hussein with them, the country is apt to fall to Nasser. The Israelis, unwilling to be surrounded by Nasser, may well march to the west bank of the Jordan River, to give themselves a more defensible border as well as 2,165 more square miles of territory. With obvious envy, a British diplomat noted that the U.S. evacuation from Lebanon will be relatively easy, "since it merely involves walking down to the beach." But in Jordan there is no easy way out. Said the diplomat: "We don't regret...
...apt to talk more sense to the South on the subject of race relations than the South's own moderates. One of them, South Carolina's James McBride Dabbs, a 62-year-old scholar, essayist and Presbyterian elder, makes a forthright appeal to reason in this first book. Amid echoes of the ominous thunderclap of the Faubus election victory in Arkansas, Author Dabbs speaks in a deceptively small voice, but arraigns himself no less harshly than his neighbors...