Word: trait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bell explained that Kennedy picked up that trait after the Bay of Pigs hasen in 1961 which he commissioned largely on the basis of international advice...
...overriding trait of the two-term Senator from Ohio is his independent mind. Glenn is for nuclear power and says so in the face of the fiercest opposition. He publicly calls for the Israelis to stop building more settlements on the West Bank. He has defied organized labor by voting against its cherished picketing legislation, and union leaders have never really forgiven him. Glenn has uncommon political courage. Interest groups, no matter how sophisticated and strident, have learned that turning up the pressure only makes Glenn hang tougher. He cannot be intimidated...
...more than a hundred small gardens and inhaled the subtle scents of the catalpa trees ("Almost everything grows that is put into the ground," marveled a Swiss visitor in 1701). They worked and studied prodigiously for their beliefs, a diligence that became the young nation's defining trait. Lawyer George Wythe, whose house on the green is a visual joy, started a student in Greek at dawn and by evening had taken him through Latin, mathematics, French and English literature. Young Jefferson studied 15 hours out of every 24. "Determine never to be idle," he told his daughter...
...Madre) in Mexico and former Gestapo Official Klaus Barbie in Bolivia. But he is far from a star in Hamburg, West Germany's de facto journalistic capital. Says one fellow reporter: "He is a perfectly ordinary reporter, perhaps a little gullible but otherwise bland." Heidemann has one colorful trait: a passion for Nazi memorabilia. He sold his house in Hamburg a decade ago to buy a yacht that formerly belonged to Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Göring, then used it for entertaining aging former Nazi officials. Several years ago Heidemann bought letters purportedly exchanged between Mussolini and Churchill...
...inspires so little romance, Tom Watson has a predilection for the romantic, a trait once associated with golf. "It's a slow game," says the finest golfer in the world, "and it's difficult to get the full meaning of it without taking time. You play along a while against the course, until, eventually, it comes down to the last nine holes, and you go after the other guy, usually just one other guy." Watson almost wishes there were no television then. "Isn't the book always better than the movie?" he wonders. "It's always...