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Word: penchant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...penchant for the dramatic, and for providing Harvard basketball fans with 12.1 memorable seconds of hoops, The Crimson salutes Jen Monti as its Athlete of the Week...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Athlete of the Week: Jen Monti `02 | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

...penchant for the dramatic, and for providing Harvard basketball fans with 12.1 memorable seconds of hoops, The Crimson salutes Jen Monti as its Athlete of the Weeks. --EDUARDO PEREZ...

Author: By Jen Monti, | Title: The Full Monti | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

...Long Hard Road Out of Hell, suggests lingering childhood issues --He wears fake breasts; could be awkward at McGowan family reunions --Given his penchant for trashing hotel rooms, they may have trouble booking a honeymoon suite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 1, 1999 | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Joey Becker is very secretive. Considering some of the traumas she has endured, this is quite understandable. She is perhaps the most demure sensual beast ever to have graced the modern novel with her penchant for provocation. As the heroine of Sue Miller's newest novel, While I Was Gone, Jo faces a grave dilemma: how to reconcile her domesticated life as a 52-year-old mother, wife and veterinarian with her sensual fantasies and hippie past. She is fascinated by naked flesh, particularly that of her daughters, her husband and her bar-waitress friends. Unlike her loving husband Daniel...

Author: By Adriana Martinez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boom and Bust: The Mid-life Fling | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...student of history. I like old movies, old stories, old styles. I am--and this not according to me--old school. Fortunately, I happen to go to the oldest school for college in America. When a guy with a penchant for bowties needs to write a history paper, he looks for someplace classy to study...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: FROZEN OUT OF WIDENER | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

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