Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...university his chief claim to fame rested closer to home. He kept open house for his students, helped so many with their problems (and their bills) that hundreds of Michigan men and women came to know him as "Uncle Harley"-a typically absent-minded bachelor professor with a penchant for forgetting speaking engagements, a taste for collecting Liberian stamps, and a passion for hosting woodland picnics for the children of the neighborhood...
...G.O.P. primary over two opponents was Willis A. ("Bill") Trafton Jr., tall (6 ft. 3 in.), genial young (37) father of six and speaker of the house, who never before had campaigned outside his home city of Auburn (pop. 24,500). An inveterate pipe smoker with a penchant for bow ties, Lawyer Trafton has much of the same boyish appeal that has worked so well for Ed Muskie, but is rated a poorer speaker. To beat Muskie in the celebrated "as Maine goes" Sept. 10 elections, he has his work cut out for him. Reason: the G.O.P. turnout...
Link Between Blocs. Barely had Pineau moved into the Foreign Ministry, however, when his penchant for negotiating with serpents asserted itself. Two hours after an announcement that he and Premier Mollet had accepted an invitation to Moscow (TIME, March 12), Pineau unleashed a stinging attack on France's Allies for their failure to come forth with a "policy of peace." Said Pineau: "I shall systematically orient French policy toward cultural exchanges between East and West." In another speech Pineau gave France an even stronger push toward neutralism. Said he: "We want to remain a link between the blocs without...
...rice in lotus leaf, jai choy and other triumphs of Chinese cuisine. Occasion for the feast: New Year's celebration of the Chinese year 4654-the Year of the Monkey. It was also the 40th anniversary of Seattle's China Club, a remarkable example of the American penchant for voluntarily organizing for a high purpose-in this case for Sino-American friendship...
Ending the program on a light note, the chorus sang football and folk songs. The best of these was Casey Jones, which Edward Lawton '34 rejuvenated with deceptive cadences and a modal setting. In the football songs the singers exercised their penchant for strident tone without doing any musical harm. If they could learn more restraint in performing serious music, this would be one of the finest Glee Clubs of recent years, and a fitting group to represent Harvard in Europe...