Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large plate glass window on Mass Ave. The son of Greek immigrant parents, Saravelas grew up in West Roxbury and studied in Greek Orthodox seminaries for six years before "running away" to Chicago at the age of 26 to get a degree in psychiatric social work. He has a penchant for phrasing things in "ethical" terms, and, according to a number of present and former staff members, a tendency to look for the causes of kids' problems inside their own heads rather than out on the street and in the institutions where the causes usually...
Even the American penchant for adopting pets can prove painful: the soldiers must either go through laborious paper work to bring their dogs home, find someone to keep them or have a veterinarian dispose of them. U.S. military authorities warn against abandoning the animals...
...Cleo showed recently at a standing-room-only concert in London's Intimate Theater, there is more to her singing than mere vocal acrobatics. There is, for one thing, the sultry, mischievous beauty that belies her 45 years-often enhanced by her penchant for wearing flowing gowns unbuttoned to the waist. There is the emotional intensity that glints inside every wave of her finely controlled vibrato on a ballad like Night and Day. Then there is the quicksilver sensitivity to shifting harmonies on a snaky blues like Gimme a Pigfoot...
Americans have a penchant for forgiving crooks once punishment has been inflicted. Customarily, applicants for such generosity have stolen on a grand scale, or possess a fascinating personality. Willie Sutton comes to mind. Now there is James Riddle Hoffa. The former head of the Teamsters Union was released from prison by presidential clemency on Dec. 23, 1971. Since then he has been invited to appear on network television, asked his political preferences, interviewed sympathetically by newspaper reporters and given a respectful hearing by a Senate subcommittee. By the time' he makes his move to take over the Teamsters again...
Conor Cruise O'Brien continues to inform and dismay. He is an Irishman of Catholic ancestry and sympathies, whose family circle included agnostics, anticlericals and persons whom an old-fashioned liberal would call "emancipated." An exotic heritage, by Irish standards anyway, which perhaps accounts for his penchant for exposing outwardly altruistic policies that are, in his view, really selfish, cynical and exploitative...