Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing about all this folderol is that it may prove very popular. The huge CinemaScope screen floods the moviegoer with so much wonderful Florida sunshine that he is apt to sit back, happy as a grapefruit, and soak it up-ignoring the silly background babble of all those Hollywood tourists...
...prepared no full-length script, no memorized remarks-just a few key phrases on a scribble sheet. But he is master of his case. Lightly he skips from page 1,428 of the record to page 3, and back again, to make his points. His words, though spontaneous, are apt; his voice still sonorous, if no longer as powerful ("The horn you blow doesn't get any louder as you get older"); his argument confident without being arrogant. Other lawyers may try to put across a dozen ideas in a case. Davis prefers to narrow the issue...
...undermining or hurting programs that are good for America? . . . Are you weakening the Democratic Party? . . . Are you weakening or defeating Democratic candidates . . . ? I think you are . . . You are rendering a disservice to the people of America . . . Rightly or wrongly, fairly or unfairly, the fact is that the public is apt to immediately oppose whatever you support . . . I do not think you should discuss anything at this convention except one question: Should A.D.A. continue...
Working mostly on Saturdays, when students and professors are apt to be at football games, Carroll also stole wallets, watches, jewelry. He took credit and identification cards, used them to forge checks. The summer months were tough going ("The slack season," says Carroll), but he found that in the ordinary academic year he could show quite a profit. He spent an average of $500 to $800 a week, still had enough money left over to buy a new Chrysler, and to move his wife and five children into a new $10,000 home (paid for in cash...
...Whether rightly or wrongly," Furcolo said, "the fact is that the public is apt to oppose immediately whatever you support." Furcolo implied by this, ADA leaders believe, that the group is considered a "pinko" organization...