Word: trait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Troublesome Trait. Designated 6-105 by the Agriculture Department, the new wild oat, which has a high protein value, resists the rusts that destroy 6% of the U.S. oat crop every year. To eliminate its tendency to lose some of its kernels before harvesting, it is currently being bred with existing commercial varieties at Agriculture Department stations in Midwestern and Southern states. When that troublesome trait is eliminated and varieties bred from 6-105 finally go into large-scale production, they could save the U.S. farmer upwards of $26 million per year...
...curiosity is genuine-one might even say profound. "This is a guy," says the same Times man "who thinks he can learn something from everybody. This is a personal as well as a professional trait. He wants to know what you're thinking. He especially wants to know what young people are thinking." One Harvard student who has known Reston for many years says he can remember being "grilled" by him when he was nine...
...powers of the mind, the one overriding trait that makes Rubinstein percolate is rooted in his spirit. He is a hopelessly rosy-eyed, warm-blooded, bighearted, card-carrying romantic. On the Old World side, his pianistic pedigree dates back to some of the great masters and to the very origins of the instrument. Violinist Josef Joachim, Brahms's great friend, was Rubinstein's mentor. Rubinstein got his piano training from Karl Heinrich Earth, who was taught by the man (Franz Liszt), who was taught by the man (Karl Czerny), who was taught by the man?Ludwig van Beethoven...
Blind Spot. Bland persistence is the hallmark of the Arkansas Democrat, who was once denounced by Harry Truman as "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b." But though onetime Rhodes Scholar Fulbright, 60, has long been described as an enigma, the trait that has made him a Senate storm center for two decades is not hard to define...
...when we learn how most of them behave we believe in them even less. The vegetarian and his wife, for example, have one important character trait. They "believe passionately in the integrity of all the world." Although they have spent their lives crusading vainly and have witnessed a great deal of violence and cruelty, they are convinced that everyone is basically good. Smiling, they distribute money to armless, legless beggars and cluck sadly at racial violence in the South. When they are pushed around for no reason by expressionless secret police and their innocent friends are beaten and locked...