Word: prone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friendly Farmers. Mutually frustrated in the face of such plenty, dove hunters display unusual sympathy for one another. Unlike surly, secretive deer hunters, who are all too prone to argue over whose shot felled which animal first, dovemen retrieve one another's downed birds, happily transmit information about good hunting grounds, and try not to sprinkle the neighboring encampment with No. 6 bird shot. They get on famously with farmers in the richly irrigated valley, who find the grain-eating doves a nuisance (the dove population consumes 300 tons of seed a day). What's more, each hunter...
...century. The social system the conquerors brought with them was rigid and shot through with the sort of caste prejudice that obsessive inferiority feeds on. As they colonized, the conquistadors fathered the first generation of mestizos, part Indian and part Spanish. The mestizo grew up insecure, second-class, and prone to imitate the manliness of the powerful Spaniard who conquered his Indian forebears and sired his class...
...gulf between the National League-leading Los Angeles Dodgers and the bunched-up teams below, from St. Louis to Philadelphia, was not so wide or so yawny. And, bless Doubleday, the National's season is traditionally more prone to surprises. The San Francisco Giants showed hopeful early-season strength, and it was not so far back that St. Louis was half a game ahead and the next four teams were no more than 2½ games out of first place. But in July the Cardinals were walloped out of the lead in a fateful three-game series with...
...soloists, who were often embarrassing, presented another set of problems. Counter tenor Donald Parsons was the worst detractor, and bass Donald Langmuir, though not prone to missing notes like Parsons, lacked power and richness. Greer McLane, the mezzo soprano, was the best of the trio, if rather uninspired...
...People in their 30s are less prejudiced than those younger or older. The most prejudice-prone of all the categories covered by the study: the retired...