Word: prone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automatic antidotes to backwardness and poverty that they are often assumed to be, mineral-rich Bolivia (pop. 3,300,000) should be a paradise. The bloody uprising of 1952 led Bolivia into the world's most comprehensive social security, illiterate Indians got the vote and land, the coup-prone army got abolished, and the mines that enriched tin barons of old got taken over by the government. The U.S. chipped in $129 million in aid during the next six years-more Yankee aid dollars per Bolivian than for any other people on earth...
...themselves insist that no one writes a script for them. Carried away with enthusiasm for the cash they rake in, agents and matchmakers join the chorus. "You oughta see the casualty list," says Mondt. But there are a few practitioners who have escaped to higher arts, and they are prone to tell it straight...
...event of Campbell's death. But for Mike, the perilous routine of dicing with death was over. Invited to race in the 1959 Monte Carlo rally, he snorted: "Not likely, mate. It's too darned dangerous." He had an equally wary word for the speed-prone public: "The roads are getting proper death traps. If you ask me, the racetrack is safer than the road between Farnham and London...
...Cuba Bonsai will represent the U.S. before a government making an erratic return to democracy and prone to blame Washington for all its troubles. But he has a unique spiritual link with an earlier rebel Cuba through his late father, Journalist-Diplomat Stephen Bonsai, who in 1897 wrote The Real Condition of Cuba, an eloquent report on the tyranny that won him the gratitude of the rebels, later a Cuban decoration...
According to its advocate, Peter Solomon, the proposed charities committee would be free from Student Council control and have an executive board representing various student activities. It is argued that an independent directorate would be less prone to baleful political pressure in choosing charities for which to solicit. Solomon feels that students would regard such a set-up as more representative than the present...