Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...philosophy; it is based on the theory that a group provides the stimulation and fruitful competition lacking in more solitary endeavors. "Music is a social art," says Pace. "I hate to see a child practice in isolation all year long, preparing finally for a recital in which he is apt to play badly. If Rubinstein hits a bunch of clinkers in Carnegie Hall, he doesn't disintegrate; he keeps on going...
...Warning Whistle. The new ICC proposal is unlikely to get to Congress before next year, and when it does, the rails are apt to prove slippery. Already the warning whistle was blowing on Capitol Hill. Cried Ohio's Democratic Senator Frank Lausche: "Sweat on, you taxpayers. Let Congress take more money out of your pockets and pay it to those who imprudently run their businesses...
...original, ill-starred Comet, has sold only 63 of the redesigned Comet IVs. has scant hope of reaching its estimated break-even point of 80-90 sales. Vickers, which hopes to have its long-range VC-io ready for delivery in 1963. is painfully aware that this is apt to be too late to break the 707's hold on the market...
...Doctor and the Soul. "Only after my theory had undergone the acid test of the concentration camp did I feel it legitimate to propound an approach which constituted such a blow into the prevalent nihilism and fatalism. Meaning orientation keeps men alive under the worst circumstances. Only those were apt to survive who had meaning orientation...
...General Patton's remark to Reader Breger (who is himself a cartoonist, creator of the much put-upon "Private Breger") was an apt comparison, even if it was not a sound complaint. Dashing Captain Bruce Bairnsfather went to France in 1914 with Britain's Royal Warwickshire Regiment, saw his cartoons-featuring a character called "Old Bill"-become immensely popular with soldiers and civilians alike. For a Bairnsfather World War I classic, which could have served as a prototype for Mauldin's World War II Willie and Joe cartoons...