Word: prone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...create enough popular support for them to influence Congress in this year of our election, 1948 A.D. The Republicans have been placed in a difficult position by the Marshall Plan. They have been forced to acknowledge the necessity of a European Recovery Program, but they have been prone to tinker with the Administration's proposals. It would be nicer for their political future, they feel, if they could take credit for the program themselves. This is but one example of the sort of political maneuvering which, together with the very real and complicated economic problems involved in the Marshall Plan...
Editor Pope did not think the press would like what he proposed: "Thin-skinned people suffer a lot but they are prone to improve. . . . Your victims will respect you, and accord you whatever praise and gratitude you may earn...
Americans are prone to think of Europe resisting Communism like a hungry man resisting the temptation to steal: all he has to do is sit tight and remember what his parents taught...
...clinician" who presented most of the data was Harold Nicolson, urbane British author, onetime diplomat and M.P. To nail the "popular fallacy" that creative writers are prone to be sickly, psychopathic, and "doomed to an untimely death," Nicolson examined the health and lives of Britain's literary great. "Since of all writers poets are . . . the most 'creative,' I . . . concentrate my observations upon the behavior and temperament of poets." Some of his findings...
...charging the Committee with its task, the Associated Harvard Clubs and the Alumni Association did not explicitly urge the soliciting of rank-and-file graduate opinion. In this light Senator Saltonstall is prone to dismiss the idea of polling the entire Alumni body with reminders of impracticality and expense. As an impartial voice the Alumni Bulletin deserves the Senator's attention. The Bulletin backs the poll, pointing out that the estimated $5000 cost of printing and mailing a ballot with explanatory covering matter to 100,000-odd Alumni seems small in terms of the certain import of the results...