Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force demand for such a huge buildup is apt to touch off the loudest howl the Pentagon has heard since the row over the B-36-and principally from the same source: the Navy. But if Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg fails to convince his colleagues in the J.C.S., the Air Force is ready to take it up to Defense Secretary Marshall. There the Air Force expects...
...delegates, the Kaesong talks are apt to be hazardous business. At every conference session, the Communists arrive in nine jeeps. The Red jeep drivers tear up the two-lane dirt road in Kaesong like Keystone cops chasing bathing beauties. As each jeep reaches the meeting ground, the driver stomps on the brakes, the delegates jump out and do their best to dodge the other onrushing jeeps (so far, there have been no casualties). Once rid of his passengers, the driver backs up to a parking space, disdaining to look behind. Usually, several drivers head for the same space...
...Alice's Wonderland had a railroad, it would probably look like the "Far Twittering and Oysterperch," which for years has been chuffing through the pages of Punch. Under the management of its founder, Cartoonist Rowland Emett, its carriages are apt to be outhouses, its locomotives are overgrown with vines and their mechanism recalls Victorian bathroom fixtures. The Emett Railway is driven by elderly gentlemen with droopy mustaches, cobwebs in their ears, and a quiet contempt for the world about them. When the managers of the Festival of Britain were making plans for a London Pleasure Garden in which...
Harry Truman sounded like a desperate football coach talking to a team that was leading at half time, but apt to lose the game if it got too cocky. He hammered at that one theme: this may look good, but don't relax; the toughest part is ahead...
...wary hope for peace, in its tense preoccupation with the great struggle between freedom and Communism, the world is apt to forget one fact: one of the items on the agenda at Kaesong is a country called Korea and some 30 million people who still live there...