Word: prone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Receiving all of the 100 possible points in the prone and kneeling positions, Murphy became "a little nervous" at the possibility of breaking the record, and missed 11 points in the offhand position...
Inflation & Taxes. "I have always urged that wage increases should be measured by increase of productivity, and I think that there would be no inflationary effect [i.e., price increases] if they were measured by that criterion. We shouldn't be so prone to ... decry profits in our economy. We tax profits. We don't tax industrial activity as such. So, if you are trying to get profits down to zero you are going to have to find some other way of finding federal revenue, if we are going to run this Government, I assure...
...method of artificial respiration (TIME, April 21) won approval of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council as a standard for all first-aid efforts. Already adopted by the U.S. Army, and with prompt endorsement by the American Red Cross expected, it will probably replace the prone-pressure and back-pressure-arm-lift systems...
...Down with the Yankee Octupus." "Death Before Living as Slaves!" read the banners carried by students in the clouds of La Paz (alt. 11,900 ft.), capital of mineral-rich, dirt-poor, coup-prone Bolivia (pop. 3,300,000). The angry crowd was demonstrating against an article in magamogul Henry Luce's Time (circ. 2,300,000), quoting an unidentified American embassy official as having said that the only solution to Bolivia's problems was to "abolish Bolivia and let its neighbors divide the country and its problems among themselves...
...following as a result of his Balladeers show on WHRB. (Where it not for the button-down collar on his brightly blue shirt he could have passed for a fugitive from Grand Ole Opry.) Miss Baez with her long black hair and soft brown eyes has a following more prone to beards and souls and such. But both singers share a professional stage presence and a delightful sense of humor. They combined to present an evening of folksongs "legitimate and illegitimate" that was always enjoyable and oftimes moving...