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Word: aptness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...field, Namath's transition from Broadway to Freeway Joe was simpler. He lives in a rented house in fashionable Belmont Shores. By night, he is apt to turn up at local Los Angeles area watering holes like Charley Brown's in Huntington Beach. Robertson, who often joins him in these excursions, testifies to Joe Willie's continuing ability to attract followers "like fleas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rough Start for Freeway Joe | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...Apt Are the SATs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 26, 1977 | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...President Kennedy's assassination, so that truth and show-biz demands are bound to get mixed up when two networks (ABC and CBS) morbidly return to the scene of the crime this fall and mimic its actuality, with docudramas on Lee Harvey Oswald. Because people are more apt to spot a poor job of makeup than a perversion of the facts, historians worry about television's lopsided history lessons. Last year's Truman at Potsdam made out that his primary motive in dropping the A-bomb on Japan was not to end the war. In Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Playing with the Facts | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...Wamponoags point out, they could claim much more than they are legally demanding now. As Tureen says, "The politicians are screaming now, but I think they will find that the tribe has been generous. Or if not, they'll forget about it." Tureen's comment is an apt summary. After the issue is resolved, Gay Head will most likely slide back into anonymity. The Indians will be a little richer, the whites a little poorer, and perhaps justice--in some compromised sense--will have been done...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Whose Vineyard? | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...judge has few outside diversions except an occasional golf game, tinkering with grandfather clocks, and a periodic chaw of Red Man chewing tobacco. His capacity for work is remarkable, and he keeps his docket unusually current. If an attorney fails to file papers on time, Johnson is apt to call him personally-collect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Gilt-Edged Choice for the FBI | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

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