Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Texas, he began attending courses given by some P.O.W. professors. Lüst soon developed a liking for physics, which he continued to study in both Germany and the U.S. after the war. During his internment, he also showed a penchant for Hogan's Heroes type of pranks: he and fellow prisoners snatched up wandering turtles, painted their shells with swastikas and then let them crawl over the Texas countryside...
...short, wiry man with a sharp tongue, Vann had a penchant for being in the thick of the fighting. In late April, two helicopters were shot out from under him before he managed to rescue several American advisers from the surrounded headquarters of the 22nd ARVN Division at Tan Canh. In the last weeks of his life, Vann dedicated himself to the defense of Kontum. "There is nothing else for him now," TIME Correspondent John Mulliken wrote recently, "but the saving of Kontum. Like a French colonial, he has no real ties any more with home. He will live...
Instead, Ponti went to Germany and enrolled at the Frankfurt Conservatory. There he began his penchant for marathon practicing-but only of actual compositions. "I never did exercises and scales in my life," he says. "I'm not even a particularly good sight reader. There's no secret to my technique: I just work hard and play the literature...
...major appointments Bok has made reflect a penchant for administrative ability rather than specific experience. Several, including Hale Champion, vice president for Finances; Charles U. Daly, vice president for Government and Community Affairs: and Paul Ylvisaker, the new dean of the School of Education, have had successes outside of education greater than or equal to their accomplishments in academic posts...
Indeed, Connally's blustery, sometimes abrasive ways, coupled with his ready access to a usually inaccessible President, made him highly unpopular with more than a few in the Nixon circle. At a press awards dinner last week, Secretary of Commerce Pete Peterson wryly alluded to Connally's penchant for poaching in other than Treasury preserves. Said Peterson: "Almost everybody is sorry to see him go. The State Department is having a going-away party; it is now in its 32nd hour...