Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muscovites are human; they are acquainted with fear. But they and the regular Army around them are just as determined as the defenders of Leningrad, and all are apt to pay heed to the command which their Government gave them last week...
...rare occasions when Tommy Hart talks about his career, he is apt to say that he has been lucky. Lucky or no, he moved up fast. He got his first command when he was in his late 205 (the destroyer Lawrence), became, after a stretch of sea duty, Inspector of Ordnance at the Newport, R.I. Naval Torpedo Station, executive officer of the U.S.S. Minnesota, commander of submarines in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. In 1931 he became Superintendent of the Naval Academy, won a rear admiral's rank, the nickname "Turtleneck" and the gratitude of football fans...
...Fully half of Harlem's youngsters are known to its schoolteachers as "door-key children." because their parents, away from home all day, turn them loose each morning with the keys to their apartments strung around their necks. They are apt to run wild in the streets and even use their apartments for immoral rendezvous...
...other factors are aiding O'Dwyer's cause. The first, active support by America-Firsters, Bundists, anti-Semites, and the like, is apt to prove a negligible influence in determining the ultimate outcome, and O'Dwyer has consistently repudiated such support. The second factor working in his favor is the alarming apathy on the part of New York's voters, many of whom have come to take LaGuardia so much for granted that they don't bother to vote for him. This year's low registration figures are ample testimony to this...
Speaker was a husky, 55-year-old Irishman named Harry Newman, who last week bobbed up as new publisher-editor of the 87-year-old Kansas City (Mo.) Journal. He spoke with apt awareness of the tough competition he is up against...