Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the technique of insurrection is conspiracy. But Lenin taught his eager Bolsheviks that, besides every well-behaved, "legal" Communist Party, they must organize an "illegal," underground Communist Party. Its function, like the submerged three-quarters of an iceberg, would be to destroy in secret. Apt students of the Bolshevik art of conspiracy, as Hitler told Hermann Rauschning, were the Nazis. Soon Nazi Alfred Rosenberg modeled his foreign section of the Nazi Party after the foreign section of the Communist International. Soon Heinrich Himmler modeled his Gestapo after Russia's G. P. U. Soon the whole world paid...
...Miniver herself, when buying fireworks, was apt to be led away by fantastic titles; she would order Humming Spiders, Witches' Cauldrons, Mines with Serpents. . . . Clem . . . laid out a certain amount on Roman Candles, Catherine-wheels, and Tourbillions, but for the most part he rightly concentrated on rockets. There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-colored stars which drifted down and lingered in the still...
...physiotherapy means anything to the layman, it is apt to mean quackery and cultism-high colonic irrigations, spine juggling, nudist colonies. Actually, physiotherapy is an ancient and honorable art which uses such natural methods as heat, massage and exercise to invigorate the body, relieve pain. Though most of its practitioners are laymen, physiotherapy is a special pet of the American Medical Association. Last week, for the umpteenth time, the Journal of the A. M. A. begged doctors to wrest this lucrative and valuable specialty from the hands of the quacks...
...flaw in the picture-as Neville Chamberlain might perhaps explain-is that appeasement is apt not to work. To sacrifice China might well prove no more fruitful than was the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia, and when the U. S. had its Fleet in the Atlantic Japan might, like Hitler, forget her pledges...
Because of the uncertainty of any contest with Yale, predictors often find themselves left out on a limb after the final results have been tabulated. The importance of the meet tightens up some star performers, makes mediocre men turn in times and distances beyond their capabilities, and, thus, is apt to result in a complete reversal of past form...