Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer about to make his first argument before the U.S. Supreme Court is apt to feel almost as unfamiliar with the niceties of procedure as if he had been called upon to slay a bull before the onyx-eyed gods of ancient India. Last week, in a speech to members of the California State Bar in San Francisco, Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson offered a few helpful hints on advocacy in the high temple...
...that her women friends regard her as a bit on the calculating side. She is a farmer's daughter from Smithfield, N.C. (pop. 3,678). When Ava was two, her father lost his farm and became a tenant farmer. Ava loved to run about barefoot, and is still apt to appear at parties carrying her shoes. She climbed trees and smoked cigarettes behind the barn with the boys...
...protect their delegates from "imperialistic contamination," more than 50,000 young Reds a day swarmed into the Western sector to have a look around; 1,590 asked for asylum. Most of the hooky-playing blueshirts, however, dutifully trooped back to their Communist festival, their one furtive look at freedom apt to become only a memory in the years of Soviet indoctrination that faced them...
History's chapters are apt to end while nobody is looking, but today in China, everybody can see a page turning. Every afternoon in the week, over the little railroad bridge that spans the river at Lowu, on the border of Hong Kong, the Christian missionaries come plodding out of Communist China. Sometimes only one or two at a time, sometimes in groups as large as 40 or more, fagged and haggard from their long trek out of the interior, women as well as men, Protestants and Catholics, French, Belgians, Germans, Italians and Americans...
When generals (or politicians) run out of ideas on how to win a fight, they are apt to lean heavily on the hope that the enemy will collapse from some weakness in his own ranks. U.S. foreign policy strategists comfort themselves with just such a hope. Secretary of State Dean Acheson has called Tito's defection from Moscow the most hopeful development in the battle between Russia and the West; what is implied is that Yugoslavia's Tito-and future Titos elsewhere-may do the U.S.'s job of defeating Communism. U.S. policymakers particularly cherish the notion...