Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them made up by a "little woman around the corner," loves rose gardening (as does Eden), but dislikes sport, refuses to cook or keep house. "A person of decided views and individual tastes," said an Oxford don who knows her well. "Always a firsthand person." Women are apt to be reserved if not openly critical of her. Men, though, find her charming; she has had more than her share of suitors, but took none seriously until Eden...
...radio last week reported that housewives are apt to turn on their radios by day and save the TV set for the evenings, when the family gets together. In an advertising rate change that bore out this report, CBS radio announced a slash of some 20 to 30% on evening charges for its regular customers. Daytime rates would be boosted about 5%. The daytime boost brings CBS's rates back to where they were in 1951, when radio began to have doubts that it could outdraw TV in the morning and afternoon...
...Short, Smug View. In any field, especially foreign relations, many an American is apt to mistake small gains for big victories and to conclude smugly that the U.S. is improving its position in the world...
...Harry Truman was more apt to consider than he was to call. He had made political hay with his dramatic call of a special session on "Turnip Day" 1948, but the situation is quite different in 1952. There is no Republican 80th Congress to blame for all the things that have gone wrong; the Democrats have had a clear majority for four years. Because of the shotgun reconciliation at Chicago, the Truman Democrats cannot gracefully belabor their much-whipped boy, the Republican-Southern Democrat coalition. The Southern Democrats are back in the family, and one of them is even...
...about by the big drug manufacturers who pour out the wonder drugs from their assembly-line factories, translating the discoveries of the laboratory into jars on the druggists' shelves. Only a generation ago, the drug industry was barely tolerated by "pure" researchers in science and medicine, who were apt to consider it as undesirable an employer as Mephistopheles. Now that attitude has completely changed. For their part, as the essential middlemen of the medical revolution, the drugmakers have accepted the fact that they are in business for other people's health. "Medicine is for the patient," says Merck...