Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airborne travelers who alighted last week in a steady stream at glittering, jingling Bangkok were apt to think that they had landed in the middle of Shangrila. The chaos that filled the rest of Asia seemed like a distant nightmare. At Bangkok's busy, orderly Don Muang airport, immigration officers smiled toothily at newcomers, whisked them through a onceover-lightly customs inspection, politely urged them to stay as long as possible...
...Stucco? Nonetheless, the average citizen is apt to want to loot around a bit, and find out what is going on and consider what his neighbors or potential neighbors think. Last week, one oi the best places in the U.S. to watch what was going on was southern California...
...Tell an intoxicated person]: 'If you will come with me there is a friend in the lobby who would like to speak with you.' This statement cannot offend and being in a suggestive tone will be apt to be carried into effect...
...undergraduates crowded to hear his quiet-toned discourses, and at Balliol's long, oak-topped high-table with its silver candlesticks, notables came from all over the world to dine and talk with him. But in his spare time, when his Oxford duties were done, the master was apt to vanish...
...shovel and burro. They also need a new kind of knowledge. To help uranium prospectors, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Geological Survey last week issued a handbook, written in simple language, called Prospecting for Uranium (Government Printing Office; 30?). It describes various uranium ores, tells where they are apt to be found and how they can be identified...