Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that which starts with two opposite statements of opinion from two different informants. The spider's web of interviews checking these opinions from sources across the country-converging into a mass of evidence that leads to a conclusion which is usually somewhere between the two-is always apt testimony to TIME'S very wide coverage. The research behind such stories has very much the same appeal as a detective story, with the story itself serving as the final chapter...
...politician's mixture of folksy intimacy and celestial self-assurance. As in his NATO speech, he epitomized his goal in Europe with a resonant quote from the Bible: "When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace" (Luke 11:21). This was an apt quote for a man whose mission it is to arm and protect Europe against Communism. It is also a sentence appropriate to a man who would lead...
...parties, her friends seldom ask her to sing, but if Sinatra or Crosby happens to be mooing on the radio, she is apt to chime in with a corned-up accompaniment. Back in Victor's good graces again, she has recorded some popular songs...
...will notice how much pithier and indeed how much more apt Housman's original is than Mr. Eccles' imitation...
Oddly enough, say the psychologists, more rural children than urban are afraid of animals, more Westerners than Easterners wish "we had a nice house," and more Midwesterners than any others are worried about their pimples. Girls are apt to be a bit more morbid than boys, but 16% of all the children sometimes wish for death...