Word: apte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Malaya and Singapore today, a mem-sahib is more apt to spend her day screaming at the amah, doing the housework herself, or else trying to poach the perfect gem who works for the Arbuthnots. For the old-style amahs, whose white tunics, black silk pajama trousers and smoothly braided hair made them look like pigtailed penguins, belong to a dying race...
...seems to me that instead of using a "curious choice of words," Senator Morton [Aug. 16] was making an apt allusion to a well-known Shakespearean quotation from Hamlet...
WEEK in and week out, our correspondents see a lot of history being made; and having filed their stories to TIME, they are apt to continue thinking about their subject. Many of their choicest anecdotes, their best quotes and their ideas on the subject will have appeared in the magazine, but they also know that a cumulative survey of the events they have lived with and reflected upon will have its own special appeal. And so these trained observers, on their own time or on leave of absence, sit down to write correspondents' books, those valuable first steps into...
...family with a medium-sized car, a refrigerator, a stove and a washing machine is apt to own about 2,500 Ibs. of steel. But the 1,100-Ib. saturation figure (which also includes the steel in the building a man works in, the bridge he crosses, the commuter train he rides in) is reached by dividing all the steel purchased in a nation each year by the entire population...
Misty Idealism. Even though jammed galleries do not often bring big sales, the dealers on La Cienega are apt to speak of Monday night with a sort of misty idealism. "The Monday night promenade," says Jerry Jerome, a onetime furniture salesman who is now co-owner of the Ceeje Gallery, "helps us to familiarize people without any sense of artistic values with what is being done here." It is, of course, a big two hours between Henry Moore and Billy Al, and just where the La Cienega crowd's values lie at closing time...