Word: prone
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Mars is a powerful addition to the literature exploring links between cancer and psychological disturbance. Susan Sontag in her book Illness as Metaphor claims that the belief in a cancer-prone character type, "far from being confined to the back yard of folk superstition, passes for the most advanced medical thinking." Sontag attempts to refute such theories, ascribing them to fear and ignorance in the face of a disease that eludes any comprehensive cure. Yet, cogent arguments seem pale beside Zorn's anguished testimony. Testimony that drowns out dissent through its own vehemence...
...numbers, however, may be the quality of the protection they offer. Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Michael Cordts, who went undercover and became a Guardian Angel recruit, drew a disturbing picture of his three-month training. Among his charges: recruits were poorly trained in citizens' legal rights; two violence-prone youths were graduated simply to bolster the size of the chapter; the group was racked by a power struggle between co-leaders dubbed by the rank and file "Mr. Ego" and "Mr. Mouth...
...Bloom, Mona Washbourne, Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews and Diana Quick. Not to mention, of course, that wonderful baroque pile called Castle Howard, which may indeed be the very louse the author saw in his mind when he described the fictional Brideshead, first glimpsed on a cloudless day in June, "prone in the sunlight, gray and gold amid a screen of boskage...
Very quietly, which is his way, Anderson has been the best quarterback in the N.F.L. this year and probably the most valuable player in the league. For eleven seasons, he has been a better quarterback than most people know, though in the past few years he has been prone to injury. Recently, the Cincinnati customers had been less than compassionate...
...people are surprised," says Ray Cline, executive director at Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies. "As an educational exercise for the American public, I suppose it [the story of the hit teams] may be a good thing. It will alert Americans to the number of violence-prone governments that would have no hesitation in putting out a contract on others...