Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much different from that usually associated with watching freaks like the fat lady at the circus. Instead, I felt the same amused involvement as Bill must have when he sat down to munch on his Fruit Loops. At the same time Charlie's and Bill's lives, with their penchant for putting everything on the line, are alien to my own rather prosaic existence, I felt a certain similarity of motivation with them, as if all of us are guided by a set of principles intrinsic to Americans...
...King, a wool trader. Ford was christened Leslie King Jr. Two years later, the marriage broke up, and mother and child returned to Grand Rapids. In 1916, Dorothy married Gerald R. Ford, a paint salesman, who adopted young Leslie and gave the boy his name?as well as his penchant for hard work, athletics and community involvement. He also instructed his stepson in a certain humility. Remember, he told the boy, someone else can always do the job better than you. The elder Ford, who died in 1962, never prospered as a businessman but established a reputation for character...
...oath and felt he was being treated rudely by Jackson. At a press conference later, Kissinger made a convincing case that nothing had been agreed upon with the Soviets that was out of line with the basic treaty. But Jackson claimed that the real issue was Kissinger's penchant for handling U.S. foreign policy as he saw fit, ignoring the bureaucracy and failing to get the approval of Congress...
When a couple of friends who owned a basketball team came to him in 1966 with the idea of starting a new league, he quickly dropped his tax cases to barnstorm the country looking for prospective owners. In the hunt, Davidson coupled his penchant for cold calculation with a latent but awesome talent for salesmanship. Davidson, 39, makes an impressive appearance with his year-round tan and robust physique (he plays tennis and basketball at least three times a week). His pin-stripe suits, moderate Republicanism and background as a Beta Theta Pi at U.C.L.A. tend to reassure businessmen...
...court a month later and the charges were dismissed. The police, reluctant to admit that they had bungled horribly, pressed the charges to the bitter end, perhaps because the second complainant was none other than the wife of the arresting officer, a patrolman with a penchant for arresting people on such ridiculous pretexts as breaking tree branches. I quit; sold stereos for a month; worked on a cigarette promotion handing out sample packs to promote national cancer week; got into law school; found a summer job with a PR firm; finally moved into an apartment; and had my car stolen...