Word: penchant
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...years, has always been a strong believer in diversification. When he arrived in Akron in 1900, as Goodyear's new plant superintendent, he was just out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the first real scientist on the young company's staff. He also had a penchant both for production and for trying unexplored fields. In those days U.S. tiremakers produced solid, iron-hard rings of rubber. Litchfield soon learned a better way. In 1902 he took Goodyear's tires to a reliability test in the British Isles, paying his own way across on a cattle boat...
...London shops. When she arrived, sometimes on less than an hour's notice, the dealer closed his doors, let the old lady roam through all crannies. Some dealers kept a special drawer for her, in which they put aside items of the kind she favored. Others, knowing her penchant for exploring, prepared their shops as for an Easter-egg hunt, with curios to a queen's taste hidden where she was sure to find them...
Charlotte's life story resembles Christine's. He was a sensitive boy, quiet and lonely, with a penchant for dressing up in women's clothing. Like Christine, he was drafted into the Army; unlike Christine, he found it too hard. In 1948 he got a medical discharge from the Army after three months' service, on his own complaint that he "didn't have the strength" for Army life, and on other findings of doctors who agreed. In New Orleans, where he lived most recently, Charles was regarded as an efficient bookkeeper and typist...
...visitors will bring four aquatic standouts to the Blockhouse, Bill Yorzyk, a National AAU and Collegiate champion, holds the record for the 220-yard race and swims the 440 in a time, Ulen said. "far beyond anything we can do." And his teammate. Bruce Hutchinson, has a strong penchant for placing second to him in both events...
...spite of his penchant for farming gadgets, he managed to stay clear of the vast machinery that runs Harvard until this year, when the I.B.M. machines went berserk and for weeks he had no list of the students in his course with which to draw up sections. But there is always the daily consolation that he can leave Harvard Hall and the hustle of the University, stroll slowly across the Common into the shaded Quad and once more become responsible for an ordered island of 1000 women