Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response that his critics found hard to take and his friends found hard to defend. It did nothing to stop the rumors. Dean Acheson owed his job to just one man, Harry Truman, who has said he considers him one of the "great Secretaries of State." The President was apt to stick by him the more he was attacked. Acheson's peril, however, lay not so much with critics of his foreign policy, as with its friends, who feared that his unpopularity jeopardized the policy. It was their outspoken worrying that lent credence to reports that within a month...
...Italian extraction, he says, "I've always felt that there were two strikes against me, and that to succeed I had to do a better job than anyone else." He dresses so carefully it sometimes takes him 15 minutes to knot his tie, and he is apt to be practicing speeches aloud while doing it. Even Rhode Island's long-dominant Irish politicians like him, partly because on March 17 each year, John Orlando Pastore contracts his name to John O'Pastore, in honor of i) his birthday and 2) St. Patrick...
Last week Manhattan's modish Museum of Modern Art got around to staging the biggest retrospective show of Soutine's work ever held. At first sight, viewers were apt to be disappointed, for at first his canvases look smeary, stagy, airless and uncomfortably crammed...
...Right with Me." Of course, readers of poetry are different from readers of philosophy: they are more apt to draw conclusions that the poet never intended. "You know," said Eliot in a confidential digression, "in one of my poems I use the words 'the spectre of a Rose.' Now, I intended that to refer to the Wars of the Roses. Then I wanted it to hint of Sir Thomas Browne's famous 'ghost of a Rose'. . . But I was also quite pleased to hear that some people thought it referred to Nijinsky [and the ballet...
...John moved on to the produce department, became engrossed in testing the hanging-type scales, decided they ought to be replaced with the counter type. Said he: "The others look better and they're not so apt to go out of whack with all that bouncing around...