Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Median Yale has 2.3 children, puts in a good ten hours a day at her housework. She is apparently allowed only one part-time maid one day a week, spends a modest $325 a year for her clothes and $40 more for "personal beautification." Politically, she is apt to be Republican, usually voting just the way her husband does. In whatever spare time she has, she gets through about twelve books a year...
Once upon a time there was a poor man. He was not meek in spirit, but lazy, mean, vituperative and usually drunk. He stood all day long, a beggar, by the church in a little French town, and when anyone gave him alms, he was apt to curse and spit and swipe at them with his stick for thanks. Everybody despised him, and he despised everybody...
American Parallel. When an American tells a Frenchman that the U.S. once fought a war to throw off a colonial power, the Frenchman is apt to reply that the Americans have oversimplified their own history. The Indians were the true local population of America and they were pretty well exterminated by the colonists, say the French. In other words, colonialism in U.S. history involves three elements, not two: the natives (the Indians), the European colonists (George Washington) and the parent government (George III). When the Americans instinctively and sentimentally rush to the side of the Arabs in North Africa, they...
...eats pork pie for breakfast, lunch & dinner in the kitchen of his Oxford house where (his sons off on their own) he now lives alone. With all his ailments, Gary is tough and wiry, and likes to take long walks every day. During a lengthy conversation he is as apt as not to chin himself on a door. As a talker, he is occasionally overwhelming. His mind is crowded with stored-up memories, like the attic of an old house; there is no telling what will turn up. Says Humorist A. P. Herbert: "He rather terrifies me. There is nothing...
Shivers makes certain concessions (such as the Mercury in Ford clothing) to what his constituents expect of a Texas governor, but he is not the type known to the rest of the country as the professional Texan. His hats are apt to be more nearly five-gallon than ten, his drawl is under control, and his public manner is more earnest than hearty. He can even kid the Texas myth a little. In a recent radio interview with Bob Crosby, he said: "I'd like to say something serious now, something I want all the world to know...