Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indefinitely -because his testimony against alleged killers in two other trials had led to reports that mobsters were offering $50,000 to have him murdered. Geraway, 37, would probably still be in that deadend fix were it not for Steven Duke, a quixotic law professor from Yale with a penchant for seemingly hopeless cases...
...penchant for prosecuting conspiracies often meets resistance in other nations, but when the conspiracy involves narcotics it is a different story. Chile has recently been voluntarily expelling a group of its own citizens who allegedly were shipping cocaine to the U.S. Still more striking is the case of Auguste Joseph Ricord, 62, now serving a 20-year sentence for conspiracy to smuggle heroin into...
Cornerbacks: (9) KENITH POPE, Oklahoma, 6 ft., 206 Ibs., and (10) JERIS WHITE, Hawaii, 6 ft., 185 Ibs. In a field of "suspect" cornerbacks (there are no acknowledged stars this year), Pope has what the pros like best-a penchant for hard hitting. "He has those receivers listening for footsteps all the way," say the scouts. Though White is not exceptionally fast, he "has great anticipation" and has a reputation as a sure tackier. "We'll grab him," says one personnel man, "if he's half as good as our man in Hawaii says...
Both men joined the gang around 1965. Hohimer was a career burglar with 22 arrests on his record, twelve of them for burglary and robbery. He also showed a marked penchant for violence. His favorite weapon on heists was a propane blowtorch, which he used not simply as an entry tool but also to coerce reluctant robbery victims by threatening to burn off their hair. Hohimer's former wife told police that he once cut off her hair while in a jealous rage and on another occasion emptied a revolver in a circular pattern around their infant daughter...
...dispassion from the grandstand, who claims to invite and welcome death, is a role full of traps. It is hard to separate Slade's sodden grandiloquence ("Go, for the love of Christ, you mad tortured bastard, for your own sake!") from Eugene O'Neill's own penchant for overstuffing his dialogue. Ryan does it by animating and underscoring every line, each inflection with a vast, crumbling dignity, a lacerating honesty...