Word: penchant
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Citing his penchant for working with "creatures," officials it the Pudding gave him a goldfish bowl with a lose goldfish...
...issue, and recent cases have shown preferential hiring to be a double-edged sword in which the same arguments can support either side. But the Administration's apparent readiness to throw itself into an already complicated and delicately balanced process of judicial action is yet another example of its penchant for ideological confrontation...
...star-crossed-eyed lovers, and a supporting cast of TV stars with the chance to guy their small-screen images. Same situation: an airliner (well, this time a space shuttle) careers wildly off course. Even same gags: Hays' terminally boring monologues, black men's jive talk, Peter Graves' penchant for talking dirty to little boys, Lloyd Bridges' strikebreaking air traffic controller...
...Britain, the episode was a monumental public relations disaster. Ironically, TIME learned last week, the damage to British prestige was largely self-inflicted-a direct result of the Ministry of Defense's penchant for supersecrecy. Soon after the Belgrano was hit, London sent a top-secret communication to the Argentine high command in Buenos Aires assuring it that the Belgrano's two escort vessels would have free passage to begin rescue operations...
...bosom and cast aside the husk. In Andropov's case, the husk is considerable: a 15-year hitch as head of the most powerful secret police in the world, a three-year term as Soviet Ambassador to Hungary, where he may or may not have acquired his penchant for furniture, but did help crush a revolution; membership in the inner circle that decided Czechoslovakia deserved an invasion in 1968. He has also been a longtime quasher of dissidents, and was eager to remove civil liberties from Poland. Noteworthy as such information is, none of it has the exhilarating effect...