Word: apted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When something goes wrong with rehearsals of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Antal Dorati doesn't take it out on the musicians. Instead, he is apt to tell them: "We'll take a five-minute break while I go give myself hell." He goes into his dressing room, kicks things around for a while, then comes back glowing. The treatment seems to be as efficacious for his musicians...
...worth while trying to cure alcoholics? At least 60% of U.S. doctors don't bother (TIME, Jan. 20, 1947). Some psychiatrists are more hopeful. They think that most alcoholics can be cured if both doctors and patients try hard; alcoholics, they think, are apt to be sensitive people, well worth saving...
...lesson too thoroughly. Of all the French leaders, he had the closest experience of Kremlin policy during World War II. He had been in Moscow when Stalin & Co. abandoned all but a vestige of Marxism in their propaganda and rallied the Russian people with outright Russian nationalism. Thorez, an apt pupil, tried the same line in France, with considerable political success. But the Kremlin views Communist nationalism as an unexportable commodity. It can be used only by the Kremlin bosses-and only in Russia...
...make the conjugation of highly irregular verbs more interesting, enlist "apt alliteration's artful aid" as follows...
High Blood Pressure. Victims are prematurely old mentally, look to the future with anxiety, feel economic or social insecurity, "live intensely and desperately" to achieve their aims, are apt to be intolerant. They have no sense of make-believe, do not enjoy holidays. Since they exercise little and drink too much, they are likely to be overweight...