Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reversed the Republicans' previous stand, Truman Democrats suspected a trap. There was no machinery ready to ration all goods and police all prices across the land; the Administration feared chaos would result. Democrats well remembered their 1946 congressional defeat (when the G.O.P slogan was "Had enough?"); controls were apt to boomerang. On the other hand, if an uncontrolled economy did run away, Republicans could properly charge the Administration with irresponsibility...
...before nine of the 16 members of the Supreme Court. In his inauguration speech, in the Salón Eliptico of the Capitol, Gómez praised U.S. action in Korea, and promised Colombians reconstruction of their country "on firm and austere bases." The ending of his speech was apt: "We men are only blades of grass in the hands of God. May His omnipotent hand save Colombia...
...Nationalist regime on Formosa has not turned overnight into an American good-government league's dream of good government. Since the island contains both the exiled government of China and the provincial government of Formosa, the lines of responsibility are apt to get tangled. Wu, for example, is theoretically in charge of the island's internal security. But in addition to his own provincial police, Formosa is guarded by the Nationalist government's secret police and the army intelligence service. Governor Wu is thus in the somewhat cramped position of the captain of a ship when...
...coloratura roles, and by the time she was a creaky 25, "I would know it all, retire, get married and start having children." She is 25 now, and neither retired, married nor creaky. But she has learned that, "starting as young as I did, your career is apt to take a funny turn...
Patrice's career took one such turn at the Met last season. Singing her first Zerlina in Don Giovanni, she left Met audiences goggle-eyed: the prodigy had become a person. Her Zerlina was so appealing, apt and masterful that it almost seemed as if Mozart had written it for her. On the strength of that performance, Met Manager Rudolf Bing has assigned her a prize role next season in the Met's first Fledermaus in 45 years...