Word: aptness
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...responsibility. Whatever the wife is doing on her rounds, the husband and his secretary are doing something in common that draws them intensively closer, whether it is planning an ad layout or drafting a new skyscraper. Assuming the girl is about 20 years younger than the man, she is apt to find him not only more affluent, but considerably more interesting company than the boys in her own age group. It is worth remembering that it was on the set of To Have and Have Not that Bogey, married and 44, and Betty, single and 19, fell in love...
...names that baseball teams give themselves are apt to be anything but apt. Consider the Atlanta Braves, who fled from Boston and Milwaukee, and the Detroit Tigers, whose claws have been clipped since 1945. Not to mention the California Angels, those swinging young men about Hollywood, or the Kansas City Athletics, who haven't made the first division in 14 years...
Walk, Don't Run. In crowded Tokyo during the 1964 Olympic Games, a titled British industrial giant cannot find a hotel room. Noticing an APT TO SHARE ad on the embassy bulletin board, he orders his limousine over to the address given and starts one-upping a startled working girl...
...said, will probably do great damage to the Chinese society and in the beginning it will probably manifest itself through intensified Maoist policies. It is inconceivable that anyone will be able to challenge the great Maoist tradition in the near future, Pye said, but this rigid period is not apt to be very extended...
...submission of the individual to the state. Says David Rowe, Yale professor of political science: "The Chinese Communists have reverted to some of the worst things in the history of Chinese civilization: super-elitism, perversion of education into indoctrination, conspiratorial politics." Yet the older forms of Chinese despotism were apt to be lax, since the country was too vast for tight control; the Communists, thanks to modern communications, are far more thorough...