Word: penchant
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...matter of hours, investigators traced the revolver to Passenger Frank Gonzales, 27, a member of the Philippine yachting team in the 1960 Olympics, who later moved to San Francisco. He had bought more than $50,000 in flight insurance, had named his estranged wife as beneficiary. Gonzales had a penchant for gambling, leading to the suspicion that he had lost heavily in Reno and had chosen a weird and horrible way out of his problems...
...undergoes a major political revolution--Negroes in all levels and offices, submitting rights bills of their own in Congress." When asked how long this will be, Higgs frowns pensively, rubs his chin, and drawls slowly, "two years maybe less . . . it will probably take total Federal occupation, of course." This penchant for precise numerical prediction is most interesting when focused on the civil rights bill, for Higgs has displayed an incredible touch for Washington politics. Last summer he and several law students drew up an "ideal" civil rights bill, which seasoned observers ridiculed as utopian. Last month the bulk of that...
Somebody is always trying to make a monkey out of modern art. This time it was Peter, 4½, a West African chimpanzee with a penchant for paint, who lives in Sweden's Boras zoo. Newsmen on the Goteborgs-Tidningen, a Goteborg daily, got Peter's 17-year-old keeper to give him a brush and oil paints. Peter took to daubing like a duck to water. He painted all over the floor; he painted all over his keeper; he even painted all over a few canvases. He ate whole tubes of cobalt blue, leading to the speculation...
Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, Presidential Economist Walter Heller and M.I.T. Economist Paul Samuelson lately have taken up the argument that Martin and his colleagues unwisely tightened money before the last recession. Attacking the system's penchant for secrecy, such Democrats as Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire complain that trying to find out why and how the Federal Reserve makes its decisions is like "trying to paste a custard pie on a wall." To make the Federal Reserve more dependent upon the President and upon Congress' easy-money advocates, Patman is sponsoring bills that would: >End its authority...
...black wig, a flowered silk dress, and three pounds of bangles for her wrists. She looks the same as she did 20 years ago, and . . . Several ax murders later, the problem appears to be: how you gonna keep Momma down on the farm when she has such a penchant for pruning...