Word: penchant
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With the departure of Jewett, the College will lose a capable and competent administrator who often had his door, and ears, open to students. His penchant of compromise and delay seem to come with the office of a College dean...
That was Montgomery's style: colorful and quotable but imprecise. His penchant for old sweaters and big berets helped foster a folksy image that made him popular with his troops and the public. Behind the image, however, he was a thoroughly professional soldier who paid attention to almost nothing but his profession, living and eating alone in a trailer in the midst of his army. With an ego nearly as large as General Douglas MacArthur's, he was good at public relations but bad at human relations...
...otherwise healthy European heartline. But other nations are experiencing their own unhealthy twitches. France has its National Front, led by the anti-immigration populist Jean-Marie Le Pen. He has led the party to a solid 10% vote in a series of elections dating back to 1988, despite a penchant for crude crematorium quips, a reportedly secret admiration for Hitler and a not-so-secret racism. The extreme-right neofascist British National Party, which advocates anti-immigration policies, last year startled the political establishment by winning a seat in the local government of a poor London district...
Aside from some concern for Gregoire's penchant for paranoid hyperbole, we at Dartboard support efforts to prosecute our fellow Crimson editors to the fullest extent of the law. As part of our continuing effort to serve the community, we checked with the state Attorney General's office to see what kind of jail terms these criminals might be facing...
...those who have discovered it, the new Late Night has found its place as a nightly cultural ritual. It has a personalized and cultivated classic sense fostered by Conan's own penchant for past-hipster 1950's graphics and classic Hollywood photo stills, and a first-rate jazz ensemble fading to commerical with bop-style selections. The peppering of slightly-off Lampoon humor and cutting-edge musical guests propels the show out of the starchy promotion-circuit interview format. After nearly nine months of gestating under constant media scrutiny of the now-hyper-commercialized late night niche, the energy...