Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reader Bulpitt's apt comparison, see cuts...
...marionettes and the slow-motion gyrations of deep-sea fish. At the top of a first-rate cast, which included Walter Slezak, Martyn Green and Stubby Kaye, was 37-year-old Mickey Rooney, who somehow managed to keep ubiquitous Mickey Rooney out of the act and gave a remarkably apt performance as the wooden boy with the tent-peg nose...
Proper Protection. How may foreign private investors be properly protected? Said Abs: "There is only one means apt to implement such protection, and that is an International Convention by which all contracting parties, both typical capital-export and capital-import countries, undertake to treat foreign capital and other foreign interests fairly and without discrimination and to abstain from direct or indirect illegal interferences with such investment...
...land, an unmarried girl approaching 30 is apt to get an attack of the will-I's; Will I, oh will I ever find a husband? In Japan, this question throws the girl's entire family into a near panic. The Makioka Sisters is the story of a great mate hunt conducted with all the fussy protocol, near misses and ever-lurking dangers of a de luxe African safari...
...down to size those who displease him. Of King George I: "Here on English soil stood an unprepossessing figure, an obstinate and humdrum German martinet with dull brains and coarse tastes." When he describes combat, which is a good deal of the time, his ardent prose is apt to be high-flown: "The lure of gold and the sting of Cadiz inspired the leaders, and at last they let loose their brave men, who fought with indomitable fury...