Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those broad grins fold his face into a mass of wrinkles, reminders that the ex-Governor's life was once hard and impoverished. That penchant for shoulder-slapping and small talk reflect the Babbitt-like boosterism which brought him business success during the Depression. That briskly polite, nearly oriental, bow which introduces each handshake reminds one that Volpe's recent years have been graced with comfort and prestige...
...born in San Francisco on June 14, 1925. His father, a New York-born mining engineer and a devoted amateur musician, died in a 1941 auto crash. His mother, daughter of a minor French politician-journalist, was and remains, in her sixties, an effervescent, amiable busybody with a penchant for supporting liberal causes. She now lives in Carmel, Calif., enjoys nothing more than regaling reporters with clinical details regarding the problems she had nursing little Pierre...
Glorified by the right, vilified by the left, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was rarely portrayed in human terms. With his penchant for drama, he enjoyed his controversial role, but he paid a price for it: he was praised and blamed most of the time for the wrong reasons. His Reminiscences, written in the last two years of his life, should help put him back in perspective. He was, after all, probably the finest U.S. combat general in both world wars and one of the great peacemakers of modern times...
Despite his generally warm reception, Goldwater persisted in his penchant for saying the right thing in the wrong place. Items...
Reversing Trends. Sindona's penchant for joint ventures and foreign partners is the key to his good financial health. After he moved north from Sicily in 1947, he worked as a tax lawyer and accountant for such companies as Societa Generale Immobiliare and Snia Viscosa. In the process he noticed a simple but significant economic fact: while some countries were undergoing slumps, others were almost inevitably in a boom. Sindona reasoned that he could beat the economic cycle by founding firms in various countries, thus covering possible losses with almost certain profits elsewhere...