Word: prone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lundgren believes that the divers most prone to the dangers of dizziness are those who have suffered head colds recently, or severe ear infections even long ago. Head stuffiness makes it difficult for anyone to equalize the air pressure in his middle ears with that outside...
...coupled with a sharp drop in blood pressure. Doctors have always feared that this could cause the spacemen to faint under the high G forces of reentry. But Cooper and Conrad stayed alert during both the re-entry and the many postflight tests. Every day the astronauts were strapped prone to a tilt table, then swung rapidly into a vertical position. The sudden jolt induces symptoms of orthostatic hypotension. The doctors wanted to see how long it took for the astronauts' systems to recover from the jolt, and to compare this with the length of time it took...
...sick psychiatrist whose advice is to love dangerously or not at all. Mastroianni's subsequent Misses and near-Misses include a lady lion tamer (Liana Orfei) who mixes her work with pleasure, an accursed village prostitute (Liana's cousin, Moira Orfei) whose customers tend to become accident prone, and a virginal golden beauty (Virna Lisi) who offers nothing more harrowing than a vow of chastity...
...tweaking the noses of the middle classes." To celebrate the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante (see BOOKS) this spring, the girls donned costumes and reconstructed the campus according to the Divine Comedy-Hell was the college dump, Heaven a hilltop garden. Men at nearby colleges are prone to gossip about Bennington students as "rather bohemian girls of a sexually compliant nature," which sometimes leads the girls to answer requests for dates with an icy "I have a paper...
...would urge," Chernoff warned, "that people who are prone to this sort of , particularly those with exams up, resist the desire to laze under the , lest they succumb to the 'green...