Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outstanding prize for the CIA. "A major defection from Bucharest is almost a contradiction in terms," says a U.S. intelligence expert. Because of its resolute independence from Soviet influence, Rumania is not privy to the most sensitive intelligence traffic between Moscow and its more compliant satellites. Nor is Pacepa apt to be well informed about the Soviet army, because his country has not permitted the Warsaw Pact to deploy troops on its soil since the mid-'60s. Nonetheless, the defector can shed some light on subjects of interest to U.S. analysts -among them the question of how Rumania...
...likeness. Readers too seem less judgmental, interested less in someone's character than in his or her "life-style." That mood could change, and if it did, so would the journalism. But an interest in people won't go away: it is as old as Plutarch, and apt to survive as long as humans...
...time, the Nixon court sobriquet seemed apt. From 1969 to 1971, four Nixon appointees joined the court-Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell-and many observers expected them to reverse the trend set by the liberal Warren Court in the 1950s and '60s. Judicially activist, the Warren Court had frequently extended constitutional guarantees of free speech, equal protection and due process to safeguard individual rights, which usually meant those of the poor, minorities and criminal defendants. With the arrival of the Nixon appointees, the court was less concerned with the rights...
Until a man ran through a yield sign and severely damaged my car, I also held the attitude that insurance companies are apt to penalize the claimants [June...
...have repeated a counterrevolutionary slogan picked up on the street from his playmates. K'uai Shih-fu is a common worker who, irritated because he cannot buy fish at the market, is provoked into a small but redeeming act of political defiance. These subtle, honest tales are apt to be considered literary oddities, parochial stories set in an exotic political landscape. They deserve greater esteem. The Execution of Mayor Yin is in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival-and sometimes the defeat-of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity...