Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congo, the UN had to assume responsibility for law and order and crush a Tshombe who refused to negotiate. Lord Home's government was thus both wrong and dishonest: its attempt to subvert a set of UN resolutions it hadn't the courage to veto is in itself an apt lesson in hypocrisy for the "reckless" anti-colonialists to ponder...
...should think long and hard before becoming a director of a company whose stock he had underwritten, or before accepting options to buy the company's stock at a price likely to run below subsequent market prices. Such activities, noted the New York Stock Exchange statement dryly, were apt to place a firm "in the position of being unable to defend its actions from charges of manipulation...
...Christmastime "For Men Only" departments that are staffed with knowledgeable (and pretty) salesgirls. There, the shopper can relax in an armchair, sip a free drink and make his selections from items that are displayed for him. Unless he has a specific gift in mind, a husband is apt to buy his wife a slinky black negligee, which she almost invariably exchanges for bath towels or sensible underwear. Says a Cleveland merchandise manager, "Practically all the lingerie this time of year is sold to men. It's the kind of thing we can't ever sell to women...
...Pollution Control Board, added from $4.50 to $6.50 to the price of the '61s that carried it. Since longer production runs will cut manufacturing costs, the blow-bys used on the '63s may come even cheaper. To keep them cheap, all the auto companies are apt to go on using the G.M. device rather than incur the tooling-up expenses involved in making their...
...title page of his first collection of short stories in twelve years, John O'Hara has set a remark of Joseph Conrad's that is far more apt than most epigraphs: "My task ... is, by the power of the written word, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make you see. That-and no more. And it is everything." At least it is everything that O'Hara does well (if, for this master of the ear, it is understood that feeling includes hearing). The peculiar limitation of the author's great skill is that...