Word: prone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other starting pitcher is Dick Garibaldi, who was 3-1 with a 2.30 earned run average for last year's freshman team. Also a righthander, Garibaldi is faster than Yarbro but prone to wildness, which can be fatal in college baseball where so many runs are scored without the benefit of solid hits. The sophomore won one game on the training trip, and turned in an excellent relief turn. Against Tufts he survived a shaky first inning and went on to pitch four hitless innings before being removed for a pinchhitter during a rally...
...those who confuse it with Thomas Jefferson's home will be very confused indeed), but it can be visited five days a week at 4:30 p.m. E.S.T. on CBS. The network and the ad agency of Benton & Bowles, which hold joint fief over Monticello's doom-prone citizens, regard it with loyal affection: it is the mythical locale of TV's most merciless soap opera. The Edge of Night, the greatest hypnotic to appear since the video tube nudged the U.S. housewife away from radio's Stella Dallas...
...that, by tradition, had hung at the tomb of the Prophet in Mecca. Rhyth mically the crowd cried "Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!" (God is most great). Thus last week King Mohammed V. the found er of independent Morocco, was laid to rest in the royal mausoleum. Mohammed, though recently prone to hypochondria, was in good health and enjoyed life with his two wives and an estimated 28 concubines. Yet last week, swiftly and unexpectedly, he died of heart failure at the age of 51, after minor surgery to clear a passage in his nose...
...Harvard test might well improve the efficiency of the evaluating process; raising the level required, on the other hand, would only increase undergraduate irritation. Even a student who approves of Gen Ed in principle is likely to complain about having to participate in it. A high language standard is prone to be viewed as a pain, not as a "recognition of true ability...
...years. It gets so frustrating, but then again I don't know what I could do if I gave up racing." Has Moss no Stirling virtues? "I appreciate beauty." One of Nikita Khrushchev's most enthusiastic eulogizers, the U.S.S.R.'s daily Izvestia, enterprisingly interviewed Red-prone Comedian Charlie Chaplin at his Swiss villa, where he has been in self-exile since 1952. Chaplin, 71, who met K. when the Soviet boss visited England in 1956, confided that he hopes to visit Russia some time this summer because "I have marveled at your grandiose experiment and I believe...