Word: trait
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Ardor is a trait that has revealed itself since his days as an undergraduate. After two years spent as a Marshall scholar at Hertford College, he returned to Harvard and became an official at the fledgling Institute of Politics while working on his Ph.D. thesis, eventually published as The Essence of Decision. In 1966, he acted as a decoy when Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, the first IOP "honorary associate," was beseiged by 700 angry anti-war demonstrators--the first indication that the war would not let the University rest in peace...
Ardor is a trait that has revealed itself since his days as an undergraduate. After two years spent as a Marshall scholar at Hertford College, he returned to Harvard and became an official at the fledgling Institute of Politics while working on his Ph.D. thesis, eventually published as The Essence of Decision. In 1966, he acted as a decoy when Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, the first IOP "honorary associate," was beseiged by 700 angry anti-war demonstrators--the first indication that the war would not let the University rest in peace...
...only one manifestation of the impulse that is, in its deeper workings, nothing less than the engine for the advancement of the species. This was no doubt so even in unrecorded ages. Now that society has become so proficient at keeping records as a way of celebrating the competitive trait, it is no wonder that people get so carried away in the making and breaking of them. Moreover, the likelihood is that in the future, well...
...Muskie trait could obstruct a bipartisan policy: his famed, explosive temper, which resembles the thunderous Mandalay dawn. His face reddens, his finger wags, he appears to swell even larger than his imposing 6 ft. 4 in., and then he erupts. But his fellow Senators, even those who have been the target of his wrath, think his temper is manageable. A pinstriped smoothie he may never be, but, says Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson, "He doesn't become irrational. He's not going to dump a bomb on the Soviet Union and then say: 'Let's negotiate...
...strains persist between Thatcher and her European counterparts, particularly French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. A little more subtlety might have served her better, but subtlety is not a Thatcher trait. "She recognizes that she is not one of nature's negotiators," says an adviser. Her forte is the daring act. After Lord Mountbatten's assassination last August, for example, she rejected the advice of some cautious Cabinet ministers and visited British troops in the heart of I.R.A. terrorist country in Northern Ireland. Pictures of a windblown Maggie in an oversized flak jacket were visual...