Word: penchants
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Most Greeks felt, however, that the King's past performance offered sufficient justification for their action. During his brief active reign (1964-67) Constantine displayed the royal penchant for political highhandedness that has troubled Greece for much of its modern history. To resolve a dispute over control of the army in 1965, for instance, he simply dismissed liberal Prime Minister George Papandreou from office, even though Papandreou had won a landslide election victory the previous year. None of the five caretaker Cabinets that Constantine then appointed proved capable of resolving the political chaos that followed Papandreou's ouster...
...Charles M. Russell. He drifted from cowpunching along the Pacific Coast into a successful career of drawing what he had seen, later hung out with friends like Will Rogers and Walt Disney. This casual, sympathetic biography does not gloss over Borein's somewhat stiff draftsmanship or his penchant for sentimental vistas that would have embarrassed Hollywood set designers. But collectors of Western memorabilia value Borein for the literal accuracy of his work. And when he applied brush and watercolors to certain subjects-a bucking bronco, a string of Indian ponies-Borein had a rare gift for bringing them back...
...painter Ludwig Richter remarked in 1825, does not deal with "the spirit and importance of nature ... Friedrich chains us to an abstract idea, using the forms of nature in a purely allegorical manner, as signs and hieroglyphs." Like other German Fruhromantiker (early romanticists) of his time, Friedrich had a penchant for introversion and metaphysical generalizations which the more pragmatic English romantics (except men like Blake and Coleridge) did not share. He filled his work with symbolism, most of which is lost to a modern viewer...
Aside from his penchant for expensive dogs and an addiction to luxurious cars-he owns a Cadillac, Rolls-Royce and Mercedes-Foreman has few of the trappings of a superstar. One of the reasons may be that until recently Foreman actually had very little money. In fact, during his divorce proceedings earlier this year, Foreman's lawyers indicated that the champion was very nearly bankrupt. The tangle of old contracts and deals that was consuming his income has since been cleared away...
...press clubs, including the one where other black newsmen meet. His beat is largely confined to a cluttered, windowless office just off the Washington Post's news room and a vast network of telephone sources. Were it not for a slight resemblance to Comedian Flip Wilson and a penchant for wearing red plaid trousers, Columnist William Raspberry could do his work unnoticed, until another of his provocative articles appears...