Word: prone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detailed Nielsen findings indeed suggest that Sullivan-Allen viewers are more prone to switch during entertainment than during commercials. Whether they look at the commercials at all is not indicated by the Nielsen system, which measures only what happens to the set, not the viewer...
...faintly echo the bite of bigger wits now departed from the TV scene. There is Charles Vichysoisse, the leering Continental Crooner, perpetually at odds with his pianist, his white gloves and an undisciplined audience at Club Chichi. With rapid-fire changes, Soupy may become Wyatt Burp, the craven, belch-prone sheriff, or Calypso King Harry Bella, a wild-eyed, mop-domed South American who rolls drunks for a living...
Before a jury of seven men and five women in Harrisburg, Pa., Special Deputy Attorney General Vincent G. Panati produced a classic capsule example of how much personal prosperity can be skimmed off state highway construction, the nation's booming, graft-prone major public-works project. Witnesses testified that two top members of the Republican-run Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission had teamed up with Manu-Mine Research & Development Co. (initial capitalization: $4,300) in a plan to defraud the commission of turnpike construction funds. With then-Turnpike Commission Chairman Thomas J. Evans' nephew, Charles Stickler, as president, Manu-Mine...
...season long, the mercurial league lead has gone to the team best able to patch up its fundamental flaws (the Phillies cannot hit; the Redlegs are weak in pitching; the Dodgers are getting old; the Braves are injury-prone). Back in St. Louis, fans are betting already that the fast balls of Jackson and Jones and the two kid pitchers from Oklahoma have turned the Cardinals into the one solid team in the pennant scramble...
...prestige of holding a degree from Harvard rather than Radcliffe--although President Pusey currently countersigns every Annex degree. The secretary of the Radcliffe Graduate School reports that occasionally an applicant will ask if she can obtain a Harvard diploma, and that graduate students in applying for national scholarships are prone to say that they attend Harvard rather than Radcliffe...