Word: apte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...autonomous state committees which this year seem to be endorsing before the primaries. They have already endorsed California's Governor Pat Brown and Houston Oil man Donald Woods, a liberal who is challenging Texas' conservative Governor John Connally. COPE's choice is in some cases apt to be dictated by old loyalties rather than performance or promise. A case in point is Michigan, where COPE almost certainly will throw its weight behind former Governor G. Mennen Williams in his contest with Detroit's dynamic (and liberal) Mayor Jerry Cavanagh for the Senate nomination. It may also...
...comparison is fair, if not perfectly apt. Britain has lost an empire and lightened a pound. In the process, it has also recovered a lightness of heart lost during the weighty centuries of world leadership. Much of the world still thinks of Britain as the land of Victorianism, but Victorianism was only a temporary aberration in the British character, which is basically less inhibited than most. London today is in many ways like the cheerful, violent, lusty town of William Shakespeare, one of whose happiest songs is about "a lover and his lass, that o'er the green cornfield...
...only echoed opinion in many Western capitals. But they shocked most of the convention's 577 delegates. West Germans, who live in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, are more acutely conscious of Russia's armed presence beyond their borders than most Westerners. And their politicians are apt to blame the Soviet Union for the fact that, 20 years after V-E day, Germany remains divided...
Americans no longer live in a McGuffey world. The patterns of patience and impatience are apt to be paradoxical. A businessman may want to rush to California in five hours and yet wait patiently for a delayed jet takeoff. A scientist may bolt instant coffee at a hurried breakfast and then spend a day of slow, painstaking research in his laboratory. Americans love speed and power on the highway, but they are the most disciplined drivers in the world. While the French, Italian or German driver burns out his batteries with his horn and uses his car as an instrument...
...honest scales. In California, 30 Alinsky-founded community projects, mainly for Mexican-Americans, have increased their influence; last week an Alinsky disciple was leading a bitter strike of grape pickers in the San Joaquin Valley for better wages. In Rochester, N.Y., Alinsky's predominantly Negro organization FIGHT (an apt acronym for Freedom, Integration, God, Honor, Today) has severely harassed the already established poverty agency. In Syracuse, N.Y., Alinsky's apprentices trucked mobs to heckle a Republican mayor. In Detroit, his crowd distinguished itself by presenting the president of Wayne State University, of whom the Alinsky-ites disapprove, with...