Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apt to need it soon...
...Mangabeira, wife Esther and their two grown children, told him that the rent was $90 a month and paid the difference. He has since repaid them. Within six months, Mangabeira had picked up enough English to get a job doing translations for the Reader's Digest. Not so apt with languages was wife Esther, who sometimes had to order honey at Manhattan delicatessens by imitating bees...
When a gale blows up and the course is soggy with rain, the grim men who play big-time golf are apt to mutter: "It's a Demaret day." Like a mud-running race horse, Jimmy Demaret (pronounced demerit) always seems to do his best when conditions are worst...
...Americans have cavorted on the gridiron when Crimson and Blue met in the past. An incomplete list of them includes "the grand old man of football", Amos Alonzo Stagg, Clint Frank for Yale, George Ticknor, Wood, and Chub Peabody for Harvard. But any member of the backfield is apt to look like an All-American when the Bulldog and Old Jawa come to grips. For both teams, the season is not complete without that...
...ticket distribution system for the Yale tilt marks a new era in Crimson football, for the institution of the cheering section is no more. Beginning Saturday and continuing next year, members of the graduating class and feminine companies are apt to receive stats near the fabled fifty. All tickets are now allocated according to class, although orders for more than two seats lose their class preference...