Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that very moment he is almost begging for authority, an authority that says . . . that there are certain things you have to do in life whether you like it or not." Thirteen is a man of conscience, and though there are many doubters in that year, there are apt to be even more believers. "Thirteen is an age when many children are confirmed in the church by their own choice...
Hans Kohn, visiting professor of history from CCNY, agreed with Spiro that the Russians are not apt to give in on German reunification. He noted especially the fact that Russia would have to consider the feelings of the Poles and the Czechs, both of whom fear a reunited-Germany...
...energy X rays coming from the tube, they thought at first that they had started a true thermonuclear reaction. More careful investigation proved that this could not be the case, but free neutrons are the "fire" that cause most nuclear transformations, and any new process that frees them is apt to prove important...
...intercourse. Before, during and after intercourse, the instruments diligently recorded the heart and breathing rates, made electrocardiograms of each person. The scientists' findings, not altogether surprising: ¶ In both man and woman the normal heart rate of 70 per minute soars to 170 a minute. The rate is apt to be higher in the man. The physical activity alone is not enough to account for this high acceleration of heartbeat; emotion does the rest. ¶ The breathing rate, normally 15 to 18 a minute, triples. As a result of this over-breathing, the body loses carbon dioxide too rapidly...
...suggestion as to how the bogeymen in Mills's belfry may be exorcised, it is intellectually irresponsible. Still it ought to be read, if only for its half truths. It will surely be read with great glee by anti-Americans everywhere. But the average U.S. reader is apt to emerge from this nightmare-shored-by-platitudes wondering how, with such irresponsible interlocking monsters running the country, things manage to go so well, and so many people stay happy, decent and prosperous...