Word: penchant
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...professor of anthropology who also holds a law degree and is currently master of Dunster House, is regarded for "her quiet toughness," Spence said. Fox, who until now has served as dean of the College for 10 years, has proven to be a sure-footed administrator with a penchant for fundraising...
There is a common denominator to Ronald Reagan's current cluster of setbacks in domestic and foreign policy: his penchant for proposing simple solutions to complex problems has finally caught up with him. By no means is this feature of his difficulties bound to prove fatal to him politically; nor is it a function of his conservative ideology. Rather, it is the downside of his wizardry as a politician and as a leader...
With their studded leather jackets, their taste for swastikas and grisly death's-heads, their pulsing choppers, their scraggly beards and their penchant for violence, the Hell's Angels in the 1960s became the nightmarish flip side of the American dream. During the 1970s, however, they attempted to scrub their outlaw image, depicting themselves as a peaceable, nationwide "family" united by a love of the open road. Last week, as some 1,000 heavily armed law-enforcement agents in 50 locations around the country swooped down and arrested more than 100 Angels, the once chaotic band of bikers was depicted...
...trial, threw out the jury's verdict on the ground that there was no proof of actual malice, though he noted that "the article falls far short of being a model of fair, unbiased journalism." In reversing Gasch, the appeals court ruled 2 to 1 that the Post's penchant for investigative stories could be a factor in determining if the paper had disregarded the truth...
...often hard to distinguish between technique and superstition in sports. Harvard men's tennis singles whiz William Stanley '87 includes his penchant for bouncing the ball four times before each serve in the category of technique, specifically rhythm...