Word: penchant
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...your mourning clothes, let me ask for a show of hands in this hall from anyone who had any part in it." Getting across his point that the party should not take the blame for the acts of a "few individuals," Connally then indulged a frequent penchant for overstatement by going on to compare any Watergate-caused "class indictment" against Republicans to "religious indictments and racial indictments...
Quinn has a penchant for making news as well as reporting it, and her behavior sometimes invites squabbles like the New York magazine one. For four years, she has carried on a rather public liaison with Warren Hoge, city editor of the New York Post. Once, in an interview with another Washington newsman, she proudly described her story about Iran's Empress Farah this way: "It took me four days to get the interview, and then I had to promise my body over and over to the higher...
...Angeles roster-and Alston's penchant for juggling lineups-is so strong that few if any players are considered regulars. Says Don Sutton, the mainstay of a pitching staff that owns the lowest earned-run average (2.87) in the league: "Alston reminds us all in spring training that he's managing for 25 players, not one. He never forgets it, and he makes sure you don't either...
Nowhere is the American penchant for pilfering more in evidence than in Boston Common. Ever since 1897, the north side of the common has been dominated by a massive monument with a bronze bas-relief of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the white leader of the first black U.S. regiment, who was killed leading a Civil War assault on South Carolina's Fort Wagner. The only problem with the statue was Shaw's bronze sword. It kept disappearing. First the original, then another and another, until the colonel had been rearmed no less than a dozen times. Finally...
...fancier and more expensive sandwiches and a much larger menu to choose from, try the Midget Delicatessen (1712 Mass Ave., near the Radcliffe dormitories). Roy Rogers (1613 Mass Ave.) is not worth much more than avoidance unless you have a penchant for pre-processes roast beef and the atmosphere of a bogus MacDonald...