Word: prone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...malaise of some $17-an-hour workers on a Chrysler assembly line. The Indian, after all, has passed from "alienation" into a degradation that is almost mystical. In Nicaragua, the average 19-year-old peasant has worked longer and harder than most Americans of middle age. Americans prone to restlessness about the spiritual disappointments of work should consult unemployed young men and women in their own ghettos: they know with painful clarity the importance of the personal dignity that a job brings...
...pass pattern. Dallas keeps a computerized inventory of all street surfaces, curbs, gutters, sidewalks and stop lights. Water-main breaks and cracks in the pavement are rigorously recorded, as are the costs of repairing them. The city, for example, annually cleans out 26% of its sewers, and trouble-prone stretches of underground pipe are inspected by subterranean television cameras...
...trained to try to block any shots at the President with his own body; when the firing began, he turned away from the limousine toward the assailant. Hit in the abdomen by a bullet that might well have struck the President, McCarthy whirled away from the gunman and fell prone. Patrolman Delahanty, a bullet lodged in his neck, lay screaming in pain near the rope...
...tenuous and I often felt like something of a misfit with Dan Rather Jr. and company. I was disappointed when I couldn't fill in the name tag saving. "I'm------s kid," which the graphics department cheerfully distributed among "The Neps." Then again, I was a little less prone to being complacent...
...pairing is as before. Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) is still the wise, patient husband; Albin (Michel Serrault), the transvestite wife, remains prone to hysterics and to giddy romanticism. The two are involved in a rather strained spy plot after Albin comes into possession of a microfilm wanted by both the Súreté and what one must assume are Communist spies. It is only when Albin and Renato are forced to flee France and take refuge in Italy, at the home of the latter's mother, that the picture comes alive. For these are the backward boondocks, where women...