Word: prone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clerks in the leading emporiums are not prone to reveal their personal defense mechanisms, but they are glad to chuckle at the desperate measures formerly respectable citizens have adopted in the emergency. Employees at Michaels' Drug Store have lost all respect for an aged couple who, after buying at the store together for years, sud- denly feigned non-acquaintance one morn at the peak of the crisis in order to get two packs under the stringent one-to-a-customer basis...
...Russian policy expects from the 'purges' what it expected in 1935-36 from the 'popular fronts' set up in several countries . .. [by] the Comintern. . . . The aim of the Comintern was to eliminate . . . politicians who were prone ... to act against the Soviet Union. . . . The Comintern has disappeared from the scene,* but not the purpose it tried to fulfill. . . . The Moscow policy is to make it impossible for an anti-Soviet coalition to develop in Europe and the rest of the world...
...same applies to portraying the Soviet Army and the Russian people. It is quite natural that in wartime a patriotic writer is moved mainly by the people's courage, their heroism and their scorn of death. He is far less prone to dwell on other emotions which unquestionably do exist in people's hearts - on such feelings as a longing for home, on man's natural fear in the face of peril, on bodily fatigue and depressing thoughts...
Readiness to spread and act upon rumor and exaggeration is a fault to which Chinese and U.S. soldiers are especially prone. The Chinese like to indulge "the vicious habit" of self-dramatization, and flattery of their superiors. But, "of the many exaggerated stories I have heard in seven years . . . none can surpass those told by American pilots and infantrymen...
Without warning or signal, the executioners fired:-two volleys. The six bodies slumped. Maquis officers ran toward the stakes, fired a revolver bullet into each head. Within a minute after the coup de grâce, the hands had been cut free, the bodies lay prone...