Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visitors will bring four aquatic standouts to the Blockhouse, Bill Yorzyk, a National AAU and Collegiate champion, holds the record for the 220-yard race and swims the 440 in a time, Ulen said. "far beyond anything we can do." And his teammate. Bruce Hutchinson, has a strong penchant for placing second to him in both events...
...spite of his penchant for farming gadgets, he managed to stay clear of the vast machinery that runs Harvard until this year, when the I.B.M. machines went berserk and for weeks he had no list of the students in his course with which to draw up sections. But there is always the daily consolation that he can leave Harvard Hall and the hustle of the University, stroll slowly across the Common into the shaded Quad and once more become responsible for an ordered island of 1000 women
Though Viennese thought it a bit odd that handsome Karl Gruber should decide to publish his memoirs when he was only 44, and while he was still Austria's Foreign Minister, they put it down to his widely mown penchant for remarking on the talents of Karl Gruber. But they were really startled by what the ordinarily suave and discreet Dr. Gruber chose to remember. In the independent Die Presse, which published the Gruber memoirs, there appeared one day a chapter relating how Austrian Communists sat down with leaders of Gruber's own Catholic People's Party...
Aristocrat in a Blouse. Apart from a penchant for beards, these two great men are a fascinating study of human contrasts. Tolstoy was a son of the minor aristocracy who entered manhood as an artillery officer (he fought at Sevastopol) and ended it trying to be as much like a peasant as possible. The more he saw of contemporary society, the more he despised it; the more he wrote, the more contemptuous he became of "style" and "art." "The patient's special obsession," he wrote, in a mock case-history of himself, "is that he believes it possible...
Love & Lizards. Augie is a union organizer when, one night, true love knocks on his door in the form of Thea Fenchel, a rich girl with a predatory eye and a penchant for reptiles. Thea is the big thing in .Augie's life; he feels "threaded to her as if through the skin...