Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kill him at the same time." Seasoned huntsmen worried about "sound-shots." Explained one: "A sound-shot is a weird guessing game invented by city men. They hear something in the brush and shoot. Then they look to see what they got. It's just as apt to be their old lady as an animal...
...delinquents. Nineteen percent had mentally retarded fathers and 33% had retarded mothers, as against 6% and 9% for the non-delinquents. The delinquents' parents were less congenial, poorer workers, more erratic, abusive, and neglectful of their children. Their brothers and sisters were twice as apt to be retarded or delinquent as the brothers and sisters of non-delinquents. Nearly 50 times as many delinquents as non-delinquents had at one time or another run away from home...
Preventive Medicine. In the slums, lone children, first children and last children, say the Gluecks, are least apt to become delinquent. It is the between-children who are most likely to show the early danger signs: temper tantrums, profanity, obscene language, and, in one case out of three, overt acts of delinquency before they turn eight...
Posthumous portraits are among the toughest commissions artists get. Today they work from photographs of the subject, but posed photos are apt to miss the revealing gesture or the characteristic turn of lip, nostril or eyelid that painters look for. El Greco, with only a rigid mask for a starting point, made a virtue of his difficulty. Cardinal Tavera's imagined hand, with its long tapering fingers, and his dark, luminous, meditative eyes perhaps have more of the painter himself than of the cardinal about them; they reappear in most of El Greco's works. But they intensify...
Promising students, whether headed for law or business or banking, find it hard to escape Haldy. Unknown to them, they soon become "my boys," and he is apt to stop them anywhere on campus. "Say, Smithers," he may call out, "I ran across a book you might like . . . Just happen to have it with me," or "Hello there, Smithers, I wonder if you could help me on a little problem." "Before I knew it," said a would-be lawyer who had been subjected to this sort of thing, "I was majoring in chemistry...