Word: prone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrators broke from the edge of the muddy Lakeview lot, threw themselves at the wheels and treads of bulldozers, power shovels, trucks and mobile concrete mixers. A power shovel operator watched in disbelief as six people-including a woman five months pregnant-leaped into a ditch and stretched out prone just beneath the shovel's jaws. Police moved in to disperse the demonstrators, but many came out of the muck fighting. Twenty-one were arrested that day; two were hurt...
...Pink Panther. "We must find that woman," declares Peter Sellers. For emphasis, he briskly spins a large globe, then absentmindedly leans on it to be sent spinning to the floor. As a twittery, accident-prone French detective, Sellers trips over carpets, steps into a Stradivarius, and pratfalls through love scenes with his wife, never suspecting that she is the mysterious female accomplice of the jewel thief that he wants to nab. Some of Sellers' sight gags are funny, but not funny enough to keep this over-waxed comedy from schussing steadily downhill at the recherche Italian ski resort where...
This theory of continental drift, though not universally accepted, goes far to explain the ring of active volcanoes and earthquake-prone mountain ranges that surrounds the Pacific Ocean. The original villain is a great mass of plastic rock that is slowly rising under the Atlantic. One hundred and fifty million years ago, all the continents were bunched together, but the rising rock current split them apart, moving North and South America away from Europe-Africa. The split has now grown into the Atlantic Ocean, and down through its center, keeping equidistant between the two continents, runs the mid-Atlantic ridge...
...common practice to retaliate economically against Negro demonstrators by firing them. Since the demonstrations had been organized to coincide with Easter, and we students were missing no classes, we were especially prone to this charge of moral irresponsibility. To prove that we were not there on a "college weekend", many of us fasted while in jail, and some overstayed their school recess...
When circulation through the liver is blocked by disease, the blood backs up into the veins lining the gullet (esophagus) and sometimes the stomach as well. The swollen, twisted veins are called varices. Their thin walls are prone to break and let blood ooze, or even gush, into the digestive tract. To squeeze the veins shut and thus stop the bleeding, two New York surgeons, Dr. Robert W. Sengstaken and Dr. Arthur H. Blakemore, devised a most ingenious triple tube...