Word: prone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before them, Weiland's skaters came on the ice for the third period with determination. Five minutes had passed when McCullough stole the puck in front of the Northeastern net. Waldinger got off a short shot before sprawling outside the crease, and Parrot poked the puck over the similarly prone Leu for his fourth goal of the Tourney...
...pennants. The most common story was that Wills had angered Owner Walter O'Malley by quitting the Dodgers' post-season tour of Japan. Yet O'Malley is one of baseball's shrewdest judges of talent, and he may simply feel that Wills, 34, and injury prone nowadays, is over the hill...
...separating the pomp from the power. This is an enormous timesaver for the government, whose machinery can tick quietly behind the pageantry, processions and boredom of state visits. Besides, the separation is a safeguard against political demagoguery. Modern monarchy often seems to reduce the tensions to which democracy is prone. According to Sociologists Edward Shils and Michael Young in the Sociological Review, it provides an effective segregation of love and hatred. "When the love is directed toward a genuinely love-worthy object, it reduces the intensity of the hatred as well. Just as the existence of a constitutional monarchy softens...
...Berkeley's aging young agitators, it was a dreamlike revival of past hell raising. To Berkeley's recently confident administrators, it was a sickening replay of two-year-old nightmares. Cops swung clubs on campus. Angry students scratched and bit policemen, or defiantly lay prone. The perennial martyr, Non-Student Mario Savio, exhorted cheering students, some perched in trees, to stay out of class. Nearly 2,000 of them did, and Berkeley again seemed close to coming unhinged...
...study of Scandinavia, Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dr. Herbert Hendin found some significant clues. Norwegians, who are less emotionally dependent and less repressed than their neighbors, average less than half the suicide rate of Sweden and Denmark. Dr. Hendin found Swedes bottled up emotionally, extremely ambitious, and prone to despair and self-aggression when their goals have not been achieved. In Denmark, Hendin declared, mothers control the behavior of their children by making them feel guilty; hence, suicide in Denmark, he theorized, is typically motivated by the attempt to establish guilt in a love object...