Word: apts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This rare use of a selective kind of "vest-pocket veto" was apt to ruffle the feelings of many a Congressman, since the House had voted 305 to 1 for the ten extra air groups. But a majority of the Senate was on the President's side and had only reluctantly agreed to the House increase to speed adjournment...
...Nine months of winter, and three months of inferno" is an old yet apt Spanish adage. Those few Americans who braved climatic considerations, and waded through the red tape to obtain a visa to a dictatorship, found themselves in the hottest (121 degrees and higher was not unusual), dryest, poorest, and most isolated of Europe's states...
...wend your way down Hanover street, passing peanut vendors and stumping missionaries, you'll notice something different in the air. It's apt to be the smell (ugh) coming from a dozen cheap bars, or the odor (delicious) issuing from the kitchen of the Old Venice Pizzeria. Few things about Hanover street are calculated to make the Dartmouth fugitive nostalgic. The Old Venice does it bit with cheese, tomatoes, clanti, and low prices...
First-nighters (among them: the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Edward Johnson, some of his staff and stars) started right out applauding H. A. Condell's first-act scenery: his baroque boudoir, hung with Rubensian nudes, could hardly have been more apt. The Marschallin's monologue, sung by Vienna State Opera Star Maria Reining, had them clapping again. But the brightest successes were two U.S.-born girls. One was Virginia Haskins (Sophie), a pert, tiny soprano who made her first hits in the Chicago Opera Co. and on Broadway in Carousel. The other was a shy upstate...
...advantage of simplifying travel arrangements. Trains and busses mean tickets, and tickets mean the problem of effective communication with the man at the other side of the ticket window, whether he speaks in Cockney or dialect French. Travel is supposed to promote international understanding; it seems to be more apt to produce complete international confusion...