Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social commentator and by those who rave about his humor. "My strongest feeling about anything is disparity-in materials or shapes or sizes. I may think a thing is amusing but I'm likely to be absolutely serious about it." With a self-conscious giggle he is apt to add, "I don't giggle...
...some time between tomorrow and 1984-and the teen-age girls are being trained for "State Service" under socialism. The Misses Edge and Baker, who run the school, are plain and loveless. Since their authority and comfort are all they have, and all that life and their government are apt to allot them, they spend their time trying to expand the first and deepen the second. They tipple sherry and sneak smokes, their word is law, and all seems for the best in the best of possible worlds. Nonetheless, they have their trials. For one thing, two of the girls...
...worried about more practical considerations. They feared that the Ives resolution, whether Ives intended it so or not, suggested a Republican sitdown strike in the face of war. Since Harry Truman, and not the Republicans, would pick the next Secretary, they wondered what kind of man the nation was apt to get. Most talked of possibilities: Chief Justice Fred Vinson, ex-ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, Defense Deputy Secretary Bob Lovett, John Foster Dulles, Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman. In Republican eyes most of these possibilities would be preferable to Acheson, though Harriman, snorted Ohio's John Bricker, was just "a dumb...
...stricture that Congress was apt to heed; Congress was in a mood for much more spending, lending and giving-and would have to be, if the country (and not just its cash) was to be conserved...
Horizon lines, he thinks, are apt to divide pictures too harshly. "People are accustomed to seeing the top of a picture have a blue sky which they accept as inevitable. For my part, I repeat the forms and patterns found on the earth in the area generally given over to the sky, or vice versa, to achieve a feeling of oneness...