Word: penchant
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...father is as famous for his penchant for privacy as for his fiction, but when it comes to his career Matt Salinger, 24, the son of Catcher in the Rye Author J.D., is no chip off the writer's block. "My father sees his job as writing. Whether anybody reads his stories, his job is writing them. I see my job as acting." But young Salinger hopes somebody comes to see him in Dancing in the End Zone, which just started rehearsals and will open in January. It will be his Broadway debut, following some off-Broadway...
...mile against one team alone. He has passed for 10,303 yds. in all and has run that up to 11,054, both major-college records. But the cold figures are not what has warmed New Englanders, who as a rule show no more passion than penchant for this primal sport of Texas and Ohio. Boston College was 0-11 as recently as 1978, and while the Eagles are currently 8-2 and bound for the Cotton Bowl, no one expects that to be their standard fare from now on. Locally, the Flutie phenomenon has been regarded...
...Isracli activists are hot on the trail of two PLO terrorist leaders whom they suspect are behind a series of West German bombings. The point of intersection between Charly and the Israelis comes in the form of Michel, one of the PLO terrorists, who it seems has a serendipitous penchant for bombshells--both kinds...
...McClure's cultivated rightwing reputation could easily backfire on November 28. One of the most important responsibilities of the Senate Majority Leader is the ability to deal with his Democratic counterpart on a daily basis, and to be able to effect compromise on key policy issues; McClure's penchant for hostility towards the other party would seriously handicap his dealings with Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd...
Certainly abroad this penchant for cowboy-style diplomacy has proved a recipe for diaster. The Administration waves a big stick to little effect in Central America, while earning the opprobrium of the world for its mining of the Nicarguan harbors. It has bungled relations with our reality of the Soviet gas pipeline. And, through its morally disgraceful policy of "constructive engagement," it has allied the United States with the forces of reaction and racism in Southern Africa...