Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millionaire, but he still had the reputation of being a frugal man; he considered lavish official entertaining "a waste of money." He lived in a large brick house (rented) on cobbled O Street in fashionable Georgetown, waited on by two servants; he himself was apt as not to answer the door. He had never visited his neighbor, Secretary of State Dean Acheson; until a few weeks ago he didn't know that his Cabinet colleague ' lived only a few blocks away. He had no hobbies-"except my grandchildren." He was a man who stood upon his dignity...
...Peron in Argentina, and he desperately wants U.S. economic help. He has so far stayed in power largely by keeping one of the biggest armies in Europe well-fed and happy; now this army is getting hungry and may start shopping around for a government which would be more apt to attract U.S. aid. Acheson says he is afraid a continued U.S. cold shoulder might bring Spain a "costly civil war." A U.S. Ambassador and some aid will make sure that Franco and his bully boys can block that revolt before it ever gets started...
...Flowers for Shiner the strain is notably weakened: plenty of people will still take Llewellyn, but few are apt to be knocked off their feet. But in Hollywood there may well be an epidemic of ecstasy; a clod could scarcely fail to make an exciting movie out of this book. How can a director miss with a story whose heroine is a truck...
...telling management about its faults, Dr. McMurry admits that he has to pull his psychological punches. Otherwise, he says, "We would lose our jobs." For management is also emotionally immature, and when given bitter pills of truth, it suffers anxieties and guilt feelings which it is apt to take out on the bearer of the bad news...
...battle, as they do in "Buffalo Bill." Given the better part of Montana to fight in, they presumably did not pick a deep and narrow gulch, largely under water, while hordes of enterprising Sioux lay above poking out their rifles from behind many convenient rocks. An Indian is more apt to wear a battered fedora than a war bonnet. "Western Union's" Indians at least spoke Indian, or a reasonable facsimile of it, while "Buffalo Bill's" dog-warriors muttered monosyllables except for a chosen few who spoke fine idiomatic English, converted to Indian through the deletion...