Word: prone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than on any other subject, and it appears that North Carolina people feel the only offense the Katangese are guilty of is wanting to be free.'' observes Democratic Senator Sam Ervin. Michigan's Republican Representative Gerald Ford found "fear and apprehension that the Administration is too prone to negotiate and not firm enough in its attitudes." Says California's Republican Representative Al Bell of his constituents: "They feel strongly about aid to the Iron Curtain countries and the planes sent to Tito. The people are fed up with it." Says Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke...
...California's Leach Corp., which makes electronic components. "There's no room in the middle any more." And the ultra, dissatisfied with the current political order, usually works outside normal political channels and, indeed, frequently accuses both of the two major U.S. political parties of being prone to Communist influence...
...while, Kennedy is trying to convince Latin Americans that his Alliance for Progress is a workable alternative to Castro's Communist dictatorship. Last week he disclosed that he may make his first visit to Latin America soon, probably a journey to two reform-prone nations, Colombia and Venezuela...
...picture, faithful generally to the play, tells the story of a small-town prude (Geraldine Page), a Mississippi parson's daughter who as she approaches her 30th year, finds herself unmarried; still pretty in a dim way but getting a bit odd and starchy; prone to nervous flutters of the heart; apt to sleep ill of nights; liable to warble La Golondrina at charity bazaars; beginning to resent her slavery to a kleptomaniac mother (Una Merkel) who is glad to be mad; beginning to be desperate...
...prone to think, over here in Pakistan, that if Johnson's invitation has done little good to the impression of Pakistan abroad, it has certainly provided practical humor in the otherwise cold-war-torn diplomatic circles in Washington and other American cities-at the expense of Pakistan...