Word: prone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kinzel, there are certain obvious implications of this thesis. He estimates that some 85% of the country's prison population are not violence-prone. If this can be proved, these nonaggressive convicts could safely be paroled from custody-and from an environment bristling with guns and guards that provides a spur to violence. Now a psychiatrist at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Kinzel has applied to the New York State Department of Correction to retest his theory on prison inmates whose susceptibility to violence will not be known to him beforehand. By measuring their intolerance...
...might think I was accident prone," Kalinoski said as he reviewed his Harvard career. "Actually, I was never injured in high school, but few people round here believe that," he added...
...odds may now be running out on the games themselves. The FTC has concluded that the games are prone to "manipulation and rigging," as any driver with a glove compartment full of useless tickets has long suspected. Typically, the major prizes are "seeded" at times and places where they will draw the most publicity. In Florida, the promotion manager of one oil company personally chose the two stations to receive winning tickets for the top prizes-two cars -and told dealers to issue them to a customer from a college or local company so that the good word would...
...Daddy's right eye with his fingernail. Baker recounts how Hemingway broke a toe on a gate, tore his stomach on a boat cleat, ripped open his hand on a punching bag, and shot himself in both legs while trying to land a shark. He was particularly prone to head injury: four major concussions in one two-year stretch...
...movement against ROTC on this campus and others has forced these men into the open. Many people (and even the Harvard CRIMSON) have clearly seen the Corporation's role as defender of ROTC. But many of us have been prone to take the attitude: "Well, I agree with the argument theoretically; now let's drop this, and discuss something else theoretically." But this approach leads to never seeing that we're involved in a real struggle, and therefore, never fighting...