Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MANY disenchanted Massachusetts voters see "straight shooting" Silber as the remedy for a diseased political system that has lost touch with the people. According to this line of reasoning, Silber's penchant for telling it like it is--and his experience running a large University--make him the kind of "outsider" needed to lead the state through economic crisis...
...play, its often trying twists and turns, and the demand for imagination rather than representation, the cast pulls it off rather well. Michelle Haner is well-cast as the youthful and somewhat spacey Alex, who flirts with the various characters encountered in "Terra Incognita" and has a deep penchant for the "slanguage" of 1955. Susan Gray maintains a prim conservatism throughout the play as Fanny, a young old-maid from the Midwest. Amanda Frye wields words well as Mary, a "passionate scientist" with a particularly obscure vocabulary and an inclination to corny eloquence...
...addition to Silber's penchant for derogatory remarks, his reputation during his tenure as Boston University president is worrying many students, Cooper said...
That's a good country ending for a typical kind of country story. What Brooks and Black share, along with a winning penchant for hit making, is a gift for finding something fresh in the familiar, something timely in the predictable and timeworn. In uptown kinds of music, that quality is called soul. Down home, it's just known as country. Pure country...
...Connor's excommunication bombshell spotlighted his penchant for grabbing controversial headlines and intensified differences among U.S. bishops over how much to arm-twist pro-choice Catholic politicians. Meeting last November, the bishops declared, "No Catholic can responsibly take a 'pro-choice' stand when the 'choice' in question involves the taking of innocent human life." The same meeting elected hard-liner O'Connor chairman of the bishops' pro-life committee...