Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...republic's U.N.-sponsored constitution, the election of the President is the business of the National Assembly, which has had an opportunity of observing the heavy-handed political methods of Dr. Rhee at close quarters. Dr. Rhee's personally loyal 60,000-man police force and his penchant for jailing critics of his government's corruption have aroused strong opposition to his reelection. Last week Dr. Rhee took steps to see that he would remain President...
...mothers have been criticized more bitterly, publicly and privately, than Mrs. Roosevelt, for their sons' scrapes, business deals and divorces. Few have been more fiercely loyal to their children. The Roosevelt penchant for wholesale wife-shucking and remarrying has never shaken her firm belief, founded perhaps on her own youthful resentment at domination by her elders, that children should lead their own lives...
CRIME The Actor & the Bulls In two decades of robbing banks and big jewelry stores, hollow-cheeked Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, 51, got away with close to a million dollars. His audacity, his passion for detail, his penchant for masquerade, kept two generations of New York and Philadelphia cops in an almost continuous state of heavy-breathing frustration. And when the bulls caught Willie they usually compounded their own embarrassment-"Slick Willie" repeatedly demonstrated a genius for escaping from prisons...
...Hull Cracks. On the bridge, the captain calmly prepared for trouble. During nearly 23 years as a deep-water sailor, amiable, stubborn Kurt Carlsen had been in his share of tight spots, but he bore small resemblance to the dramatic sea dog of fiction. He had, for instance, a penchant for providing flowers for the ship's passengers. He enjoyed toiling on deck with the crew. He kept a motorcycle on the ship, and used it for jaunts ashore-expeditions for which he often donned an electrically lighted bow tie. He was an unabashed radio ham and on dull...
...mood to talk, and he did his best to describe a man to whom he had turned over documents and verbal messages in the U.S. The go-between, he said, was a short, stocky, soft-spoken fellow with Slavic features, an oval face and a penchant for pin-striped suits. His conversation reflected scientific training. But what was his name? Where did he live? What was his background? Fuchs had never found...