Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even less excusable than Arafat's failure to control Hamas is his penchant for making petty public statements that glorify himself and discredit Rabin...
Then came the first crack in the floodgate. Suddenly remembering how fortunate Bill Clinton had been to have had the chance to pose shaking JFK's hand 30 years ago, and combined with my general penchant for photographs, I asked him if he wouldn't mind having a photo taken...
Dartmouth is the league favorite. The Big Green seems to have all the bases covered: superb runners, a great tradition and penchant for running best in big meets. Says Haggerty: "They've just got a great team...
...their cooperation and called on the U.S. to remove Sudan from its blacklist of terrorist-sponsori ng nations. Unimpressed, Washington demurred. Carlos, it seemed, was no longer much of a catch. With communism discredited and the Middle East bent on peace, his revolutionary credentials had outlived their usefulness. His penchant for whiskey, women and penthouse suites had earned him a reputation for being more trouble than he was worth...
...moved into a quaint (read slummy) apartment in Somerville with a great friend of mine. Another friend, and my roommate for next year, was yet to come, so the two of us had the place to ourselves. Excepting the former tenant. A grad student at Harvard with a penchant for the bizarre, the psychedelic and the pornographic, she deserves a full essay dedicated solely to her. She stayed with us for the first few nights we lived at 386 B Washington St. #2, packing her stuff to take a long needed sabbatical to her home in New York City...