Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sorry. But apt nicknames die hard...
...rest, any frog may look like a winner. Neither giants nor runts are apt to be champions. Frogs are simply observed in their natural surroundings, and chosen on the basis of performance. Once they join a stable, they are kept in dark, damp, healthful surroundings. Just before being sent into competition, they are subjected to enforced idleness...
...gets all his exercise running after taxicabs. At mealtime he is apt to be found at the Blue Fox, a small French restaurant in an alley opposite the City Morgue. His idea of a good meal is an order of oysters washed down with champagne and followed by fruit for dessert...
...Mits, for example, is apt to trip over the first problems posed...
...careful even in the choice of words. For instance: 'Allied forces today rolled toward X'; 'Allied air armadas today continued their round-the-clock bombings'; the German defenses of Z today were pulverized.' The underlined words in these sentences are apt to be exaggerations and breed a dangerous optimism. If the facts in the above instances call for more moderate language, then sacrifice colorful writing and say: 'Allied forces today moved toward X'; Allied air forces today continued their repeated bombings'; 'The German defenses of Z today were hard...