Word: penchants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Louis, 63, captured the heavyweight crown in 1937 by knocking out James J. Braddock, then successfully defended his title 25 times, scoring 21 K.O.s. Although Louis made nearly $5 million, ill-advised business ventures, a costly divorce and his penchant for high living led to a financial squeeze. By 1956 he owed $1.25 million in taxes, In 1970 Louis was briefly committed to a psychiatric hospital by his family. The ex-champ eventually went to work as an official greeter for Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Last November Louis had open-heart surgery in Houston, where he is still recuperating...
...FACT demonstrating the administration's penchant for containment is confirmed by a reenactment of a similar string of events two months later. On November 4, Congressman Eilberg called Carter to tell him that Marston was using his office to advance his political career and he and his fellow Pennsylvania Democrats felt the Republican attorney should promptly be removed. Either three or four days later--the record is still not clear--Carter called Bell to inquire about the Marston case to ask him about the status of the U.S. attorney in Philadelphia. Bell answered that he expected to replace him within...
...response to a student's question, DeJean said that the greatest indictment of journalists is that they have a "penchant for labeling things" and for trying to establish a formula for coverage in a very complicated world...
...when he set out to write The Offering, but somewhere along the way he got lost. Instead of a powerful tale of emotional and cultural conflict, Reid has written an extraordinarily convoluted and cliche-ridden spy story, replete with stoic federal agents, femmes fatales and toothless goons with a penchant for breaking people's kneecaps (a fine old Irish revolutionary tradition). The accent is definitely on the shoot-em-up angle; and if Father O'Neill behaves less like a man of the cloth and more like a pleasantly libidinous edition of Robert Redford--well, at least you know...
...been temporarily denied-and four concerts canceled-because members of the group had minor criminal records. But no repro-vals were necessary at the Great South East Music Hall (capacity 500), which is located in an Atlanta shopping center. Vicious' worst offense offstage came from his penchant for flagrant free enterprise. He cheekily charged reporters for interviews, asking what he thought the traffic would bear but settling for as little...