Word: apt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need to assert jurisdiction over tribal chieftains, and have made understanding noises about "growing pains." Only a fortnight ago the Mother of Parliaments appropriated $3,500 for a speaker's chair of "dignified design" to be presented to the Ghana Parliament. But was the child proving an apt pupil in democracy? For all his deportations and his juggling of the constitution (TIME, Nov. 17), Nkrumah had never before resorted to so drastic an action as the mass arrests-or trumped up a more questionable excuse. It so happened that the 43 included the entire executive committee of the Accra...
...first performed in Brussels last summer) is something of a disappointment. The plot is built on a theme that seems to have an obsessive fascination for Composer-Librettist Menotti: the maimed (in this case blinded) hero who is loved and finally destroyed by a beautiful woman. "I'm apt," says Menotti, "to express myself as a spiritually crippled person...
British scientists are also collecting antlers, especially from the Scottish Isles, whose damp green hills are apt to be relatively rich in fallout material dumped on them by Scotland's heavy rains. In this week's Nature two scientists from Glasgow's Royal College of Science and Technology report on an antler taken on the Island of Islay in 1957. It proved to have 126 micromicrocuries of strontium radioactivity per gram of calcium. A cross section cut from it and laid on X-ray film for 82 days gave off enough atomic radiation to take a sharp...
...Harvard-Brown game, the airy intangibles of football season psychology are apt to play a part. The Bruins' arrival is sandwiched between the Princeton and Yale contests and has often caught the Crimson carried away by thoughts of another Saturday, either ahead or behind
...British were celebrating, in mannerly fashion, the fact that for the first time in this century they succeeded in closing their trade gap in the first half of this year. Achieving a $383.6 million surplus of visible exports over imports was a satisfying feeling, even if the victory was apt to be temporary and was largely owed to the currently depressed price of raw materials. When the common market comes into being, however, they will be faced with a probable 29% duty on all English cars they hope to sell on the Continent. This duty is not higher than...