Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollywood, despite its penchant for violence, could not face up completely to the slaughter of Penelope's suitors when Ulysses finally returns to claim his rightful place as king and husband; even so, it takes quite a scene of carnage to get the bloody business done with...
...remote figure. He has a warmth that commands affection, and some strong likes and dislikes that testify to his this-worldliness. He interests himself in his students and used to serve them tea in his Prescott Street apartment--a custom which may have been crimped by his penchant for keeping books in the icebox. To his Cambridge friends of many years he has become something "rare and special." To even a casual acquaintance, he is a compelling figure...
Chastity & Stuffed Cabbage. Diem is a stocky (5 ft. 4 in., 143 Ibs.), young-looking man of 54, with thick black hair and a penchant for white Western-style sharkskin suits. His eyes peer out distantly from beneath heavy lids. He is a lonely man, unused to self-expression, who lets others bring up the subject and then blurts, interminably and at random, not always expressively. He is a man of contrasts. Monkish and inward-looking, fascinated by Gandhi, the Christian saints and by books (he assembled a personal library of 10,000), he long ago pledged himself to chastity...
...desk job, he went back to reporting, started his column in 1921. Soon he became known as a friend of the down-and-out. Hoboes tapped him for "coffee money" so often that Post staffers put a sign next to his desk proclaiming Segal "King of Vagabonds." (His penchant for giving away his money finally got to the point where his wife put in a rationing plan-just enough for carfare, lunch and two daily glasses of sherry.) Between columns he covered news stories, and the friends that he made helped him score some notable beats...
...Sung Soo, 64, onetime (1951-52) Vice President of South Korea, head of the anti-Syngman Rhee Democratic Nationalist Party; of palsy; in Seoul, Korea. Kim resigned as Vice President as a protest against Rhee's declaration of a state of martial law in 1952 and his penchant for jailing National Assembly critics of his government...