Word: apts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like bookends in a trophy case, they are apt to appear opposite each other in their old schools' respective bleachers at the Hillsborough High and H.B. Plant games. At least Boggs, 27, offers a theory as to the source of his powers: he eats little else but chicken and eggs (leaving it to others to ponder which came first). As for Gooden, nobody knows exactly where he got what he has or, for that matter, precisely what...
...final product should be better patient care at UHS, officials say. "The person who has a doctor here is apt to find very satisfactory medical care, as opposed to the person who just uses the walk-in clinic," says Postel...
...believe that female self-assertion was invented around 1960. But in bygone times, plenty of housebound wives and mothers found ways to control their destinies, often while cannily seeming to submit to the menfolk. That is what happens with mounting clarity and power in Precious Sons, a rousing, historically apt and splendidly played family comedy that opened on Broadway last week...
...Some readers are apt to think us unduly hard on the Carter administration," they wrote. "We go back and back to the Carter years like somebody tonguing a sensitive tooth...
...books, rapport with children does not come easily. His interviews feature the usual dutiful responses of youngsters to earnest adult interrogation. The long set speeches that his children give are cobbled together from fragments of speech, and Coles is honest enough to admit that the process is apt to make an interviewee sound like a miniature version of the author. In his pages, Coles- like Irish children offer much the same insight as Coles-like Eskimo children: there is good and bad in everyone, and that is the way of the world...