Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME [April 1] is quite correct in stating that "Western badgering and blustering is apt only to enhance the fanatic image of Nasser as champion of the Arabs." The U.S. policy of talking softly but cutting off Egypt's dollar income is much better than Britain's overexcited, frustrated yelps of outrage toward Egypt...
...like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful." Thus Pablo Casals once described his cello, an instrument he played with unmatched intelligence, mastery and passion. The analogy to a love affair was apt, for Cellist Casals gave himself to his favorite music (Bach, Mozart) with the sort of evident personal dedication which, as much as his skill, won the world's reverent respect. Last week admirers by the thousands were gathering to honor him at the annual Casals Festival, this year being held in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...Senate had demonstrated only one problem in attempts to cut the budget: no member of Congress wants to cut where his constituents are apt to bleed. There is a much more serious problem. To make any major cut in the budget, the Congress would have to slash hard at defense, mutual security, farm programs or welfare. And in the halls of Congress, that is like being against motherhood...
...crew, says Psychologist E. Jack Wilcox in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, will have been selected with meticulous care to exclude screamy or jittery types. But conditions on board will be so strange that even the best-ordered psyche is apt to break out with psychoses. There will be no gravitation, of course, so some of the men will be upside down, walking on the ceiling, like flies, with suction cups on their feet or brachiating from handhold to handhold like chimpanzees in a jungle. Subconscious physical habits learned in infancy will not work any more. The space...
...libel suit against the Sunday People (TIME, Oct. 22), Evelyn Waugh wrote in the Spectator last week: "No one who knows Mr. Randolph Churchill and wishes to express distaste for him should ever be at a loss for words which would be both opprobrious and apt...