Word: apter
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...Adlai Stevenson can turn an apter phrase than anyone else in sight. It is easier to make epigrams, though, than to make the decisions required of a President. Stevenson does not give the impression of being particularly decisive. He might weigh his decisions so carefully as never to make any; our late foreign policy on China seemed to be conducted in this way. We "waited for the dust to settle" for so long that in the end we did nothing. Stevenson seems to have no clear idea of how far the American people will follow political leadership...
...explosion of canons"-what term could be apter...
...people and finds the rabble. The officers were out to find a demagogue, of whom it could be said that he was a worker. . . . They found their leader in the lowest mass of their subordinates. The spirit of history, in its fantastic mockery, could not have drawn an apter figure...
...tool of mathematics but a tool of war is the is-was. It is an instrument which, given the data on where an enemy ship is, and where it was, can determine where it will be when the next shell hits. An apter name would be is-was-will...
...been to him from the first a sustaining power. Instinctively he has absorbed it and made it a part of himself; instinctively he turns to it for self-expression. His early poems show that "the numbers came". In blank verse his master was Milton; and he was an apter pupil than many; in light metres he could produce such a lovely little quatrain...