Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camera devotee is apt to lapse into...
...start of the cold war, atomic bombs of all types have been in brisk demand, but there was little public or congressional demand for atomic power. Said Commissioner Murray sadly: "When attention is called to the danger of falling behind in the nuclear power race, too many are apt to reply, 'So what...
About others, like Lee, who is running for the School Committee, there does arise doubt as to the soundness of their political aims and beliefs. In between extremes on the NBC, slate are men like Muchnick who is apt to be high-handed in personal dealings. Muchnick, on the other hand, is credited by some observers as having the single largest part in bringing out the School Plan and getting it adopted...
...this day...It remained for Brookline with its still-to-be-justined passion for progressive education to reject the writing method preferred by the civilized world and to substitute a system that bears a striking similarity to the crude hieroglyphics of the ancient Phoenicians. The world isn't apt to move back for Brookline's benefit; so it would be more sensible for Brookline to get into step with the world...
...these elaborate programs really work? Few executives can be found who say, flatly, that they do. Most of them agree that good executives are born, not made, and that actual promotions are still more apt to be based on the intuitive hunches of a man's superiors and their "feel" of a man's abilities than on his showing on any chart. For one thing, few men like to be watched, even benevolently. And there is a sort of mechanical bloodlessness about some of the systems which would be more likely to infuriate than elevate...