Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholarly journals, he says that he avoids "writing history for the historians." He likes to assume "I'm writing for intelligent people who want to understand something about their past. You can't understand the present unless you've some sort of experience and know how things are apt to work." When he published What Is History? a few years ago, Carr wrote it only as a "sort of diversion," not as a serious espousal of historical determinism. "I just felt like reflecting on what one does when one writes history...
When Britain's Conservative Party Co-Chairman Iain Macleod resigned from the Cabinet last October, he went off to edit the liberal Tory Spectator, and for his nom de plume chose Chesterton's Quoodle. The name proved all too apt. Last week, in the wake of an embarrassing disclosure, many Tories were cursing Quoodle as a fink whose loose tongue was damaging Conservative chances in the forthcoming general election...
...SUBURBS Castles used to be few, and for the really rich. Today there are apt to be chateaux-modern style, of course-everywhere. Newest patch of stately subdivision is a rock-strewn desert 20 miles north of Phoenix, Ariz. Its name is Carefree, which is reasonably close to what anyone should be who builds a ranch-style house there...
Tide's In. The major soap manufacturers are often called the Big Three -Procter & Gamble, Lever Bros., Colgate-Palmolive-but a more apt description of the industry would be the Big One. P. & G. accounts for more than half the cleaning products sold in the U.S., and its profits are more than three times those of its competitors combined. P. & G. and Lever were once equals in the laundry room, but P. & G. rose to the top on Tide, the first powerful heavy-duty detergent; introduced in 1946, it is still the bestseller. Lever tried to counter with Rinso...
...help of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe-had converted the Cabinet to a militant anti-Communist stand. But it had not been easy going. "Whenever any American suggests that we act in accordance with the needs of our own security," he wrote to a friend in exasperation, "he is apt to be called a goddamned fascist or imperialist, while if Uncle Joe suggests that he needs the Baltic provinces, half of Poland, all of Bessarabia and access to the Mediterranean, all hands agree that he is a fine, frank, candid and generally delightful fellow who is very easy to deal...