Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denim's revolution is a product of the two-day weekend, the trek to the suburbs, and the increasing informality and casualness of U.S. living. Schoolboys started it, in the 19305, with a penchant for the copper-riveted "levis" which San Francisco's famed Levi Strauss began making for gold miners and cowhands back in 1850 (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950). High school girls quickly copied the craze. Spare-time yachtsmen found that salt water gave the deep blue levis a faded look, which became so fashionable that youngsters dumped bleach into the family wash to fade their...
There is a definite propensity for politically conscious students in the College to develop into sponges. The lecture system and the penchant for extra-curricular forums produce a one-way flow of opinion on public issues here that limits student self-expression to asking questions of faculty experts and parroting their words a dinner tables. Compared with the other top Ivy schools, students, though equally well-informed, have less chance to speak out in the kind of formal groups they will encounter later in life...
...imposingly dignified man, Fair combines an innate reserve with a penchant for individualism. The result is a Master who can chug-a-lug beer or lead cheers at House smokers and yet command friendly respect in less exuberant moments...
Behind the amendment is a spirit of hedging, not against present danger, but presumed future danger. It reveals a distrust of presidential motives and assumes an executive penchant for subverting national liberty...
...Voice was formerly scapegoat of a blind penchant for economy, it is now target for the indiscriminate applicators of Americanism. Presumably, Congressional investigations suggest legislation, but the only concrete proposal to issue from McCarthy's committee is that all works by "subversives" or "sympathetic to the Communist cause's should not be considered as Voice material...