Word: penchant
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...this activity (which helps the U.S. balance of payments) is an unexpected dividend of rising prosperity. As European countries achieved a better economic situation, they relaxed currency controls and thereby enabled investors to turn abroad with their traditional penchant for putting nest eggs into land rather than stocks...
...February 24 CRIMSON editorial on Vietnam reflects the penchant for procrastination and wishful thinking which has dogged American foreign policy throughout our nation's history and which is rightly denounced by all responsible students of foreign affairs. The editorial urges the United States to abandon its present military position in Southeast Asia in the hope that Ho Chi Minh with a few million communist Vietnamese will fight off the Chinese for us. I place no such faith in either Ho's strength or his integrity. In any event I feel it would be extremely imprudent to deliver the future...
...relaxed and relieved Erhard who disembarked back in Germany to proclaim: "This was a good encounter-there wasn't a single jarring note." Still, De Gaulle has a press conference scheduled for Feb. 4, and Erhard knows as well as anyone the general's penchant for pyrotechnics in these semiannual pronunciamentos. "Remember that I have my birthday on Feb. 4," Erhard cracked to his host before leaving. "I don't want to have any unpleasant surprises that...
...like Chloe and Sabrina, Tared and Clive). Somehow they find time for charity work, church functions, community projects and college alumnae drives. They are enthusiastic music lovers (with a predilection for baroque quartets, German lieder and early Dixieland, an antipathy for anything atonal) and zealous art collectors (with a penchant for abstract expressionists, pre-Columbian sculpture and 18th century French furniture, a marked aversion to teak and leatherette...
...Andrade's "punishment" for having a penchant for producing children that he can't support may seem cruel to some, but it is more cruel to bring children into the world without thinking of what kind of a life they will lead...