Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handful of Americans who have had fifteen months in which to get out--these are but straws in the wind. The big push for intervention is yet to come. And in this temporary lull the Student Union is hollering for an organized expression of peace sentiment. Using the apt slogan, "No Wilson Promises," it is seeking to dramatize the tragic parables between...
Like many press-association dispatches, Author Gramling's book is clear, accurate, but not brilliant. He is apt to sacrifice speed of narrative for the sake of coverage. He is polite to rival agencies, balances Roy Howard's famed false flash on the Armistice that ended World War I by telling of AP's false report of the Hauptmann trial verdict...
With only three more weeks of work under its belt, Dick Harlow's eleven will be little more than a fancy punching bag when it tackles Cornell and Pennsylvania, one-two, next fall. Just one long round with each of these big berthas is apt to leave the Crimson squad punchdrunk the rest of the season...
Martin Dies was an easy mark. As his higher political education kept pace with the discoveries of his investigators, he was apt to vent his amazement in admonitory yawps, often before he had documentation or complete details...
...dissatisfaction with "Twelfth Night" Miss Hughes writes that "the suspicion remains that some of it was Shakespeare's fault ... Perhaps it all boils down to the fact that 300-year-old jokes are apt to need footnotes, that actors haven't time to step to the footlights and explain why they are supposed to be funny, and that some of the jokes in "Twelfth Night" need a lot of explaining...