Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given Restic's penchant for throwing opposing teams off balance with his square dance offensive sets, given the dream schedule (seven of nine games at home, including the first four), given the fact that this is "on any given day" Ivy League football, and given the possibility that the clean bill of health will come through, Harvard could make a run at the league crown...
...still other literary antecedents. Emulating Henry James' Lambert Strether in The Ambassadors, whose admonition is "Live all you can," Amy vows to escape the suffocating restrictions of the bloodless upper class: "Amy was alive; Amy throbbed. For what was life but wanting to live?" Auchincloss's penchant for the portentous flourish has never been more in evidence; in the spirit of a self-help manual rather than a heroine, Amy proclaims to Fidler's wife: "I exist. I feel. You're the one who's concerned with doing. I just am, that...
Carter's most questionable foreign policy performance has been his handling of U.S.-Soviet relations. His early penchant for open diplomacy and dramatic gestures, like publicly calling for drastic cuts in the superpowers' nuclear arsenals, almost immediately threw Moscow off balance and probably slowed the pace of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). He remains an advocate of open diplomacy, but would be unlikely to make that kind of negotiating mistake with the Russians again...
...Louis Browns had long been regarded as baseball's version of the Polish joke; in 1944 they had gone 42 years without a pennant. As the draft began to erase differences between the teams, the oddball Brownies prospered. In the outfield were Mike Kreevich, a man with a penchant for hitting into double plays, and Milt ("Skippy") Byrnes, a 4-F with a bronchial condition. One of their catchers, Frank Mancuso, was a former lieutenant who had injured his back during parachute training; he could neither remain in the Army nor look skyward for a popup. For pitchers they...
This lineup sounds grim, and some of it is. Hannah's penchant for using violence to get himself out of stories does not always work. The narrator of Coming Close to Donna bashes a woman's head with a tombstone. How come? Because he gives her what she wants. The end. Random calamities may be the order of the day in real life, but that is precisely why truth is stranger than fiction. Art demands more. Hannah provides it often enough. He does not revel in the macabre: he uses it to create sudden emptiness, black holes that...