Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese Communists, of course, were delighted. Shanghai's Communist Newsletter offered a straight-faced explanation of Wedemeyer's stern talk: "His name is pronounced wo-ti-mai-ya, which means 'my stepfather.' "Actually, the official transliteration stood for something many Chinese thought just as apt: "lofty surpassing virtue...
...Kindergarten and first-grade enrollments were bulging with the first war babies to reach school age. Babies who passed their infancy in these hectic times, warned an Ohio psychologist, are apt to be jittery about such a violent novelty as school. Dr. Clare W. Graves of Western Reserve University advised parents to watch for such signs of nervous tension as mouth-tugging and hair-pulling. After a couple of weeks in school, kindergartners are apt to go on talking jags; the only thing for parents to do then, said Dr. Graves, is to grit their teeth and listen sympathetically...
...Look, Brother . . ." Unlike his easygoing partner, Ted Schroeder is apt to be moody, quick to fly off the handle. Once, on an impulse, he wrote a blistering letter to good-natured Alrick Man (non-playing captain of this year's Davis Cup team); as soon as he cooled off, Ted was on the long-distance phone saying, "I just wrote you a letter . . . don't open it." Another time, he was about to pull into the driveway of his new home at La Crescenta, Calif, when a car whizzed by at terrific speed. Schroeder tore after it, forced...
...teased at every turn by Miss Loy's insufferably smug lover, Rudy Vallee. Worse still, of course, he falls for the judge. Good fun: Grant and Vallee competing grimly before their ladyloves in sack races, three-legged races and such other corruptions of sport as picnics are apt to inspire...
...frontier, and also writing a novel "about a man who undertook a deed of light, but who, because he undertook it without understanding its context, performed in the end a deed of darkness." Another Pulitzer Prizewinner, JOHN P. MARQUAND, didn't believe that "a writer's apt to evolve very much after he's 40," but at 53 he was off to the marshes near Newburyport, Mass. to work on a new novel. At Santa Monica, Calif., KATHERINE ANNE PORTER had finished two-thirds of No Safe Harbor, a parable on fascism based on a diary...