Word: penchant
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...History remembers the strangest things: Ronald Reagan's jellybean fetish, Nixon's penchant for tape recorders, Johnson's inexplicable urge to pick his dogs up by their ears. And although you may not feel like it right now, you're in an enviable position: Over the next week or so you have the opportunity to shape not only the way history will remember you, but the way the future will treat you as well...
...important to note, in light of this perversion of justice, that "unusual" young people can and do develop into functional adults. Surely there are many students here at our fine University, who had rocky early teen years, perhaps thanks to a penchant for grunge rock or even an unnatural affinity for medieval literature. A literal witchhunt to eliminate uniqueness among youth would only restrict the many innovations their creativity has so often brought to our society. Unusual children have developed into such great minds as Albert Einstein, Steven Spielberg, Mozart and countless others--not so scary after...
...next President are so different in their management styles that it's easy to overlook their similarities. But there are some. Both Gore and Bush have earned reputations as decisive leaders--more decisive, in each case, than the men whose presidencies they've watched up close. Bill Clinton's penchant for agonizing over every decision--and then rethinking it again after it was made--only reinforced the Vice President's natural aversion to second-guessing. A President Gore would be a decided contrast to the candidate who reinvents his campaign as often as he changes his wardrobe. "Once he locks...
Boston isn't the only city that has a historic penchant for tea--and record-breaking tea parties...
...sheer romance to think we can ever be other than what we are now." Now, 33 years later, Sanford pops up again as the protagonist of another Vidal novel, set in the same place and roughly the same time, and readers familiar with the author's career-long penchant for ironies will in no way be surprised to hear that the new book is called The Golden...