Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...points to NASA's inability to accept the technical expertise of those of us outside the space industry. Had they asked for my assistance, I would have recommended the Light Energy Neutralization System Cover and Protective Shielding. Of course, NASA might want to follow its well-known penchant for acronyms and rename the system LENS CAPS...
Aside from the fact that it was the place where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton filmed Graham Greene's novel, The Comedians, Dahomey's chief claim to notoriety is its penchant for coups d'état. Since 1963, the tiny West African state (pop. 2,500,000 in an area of 44,290 sq. mi.) has experienced four coups, all bloodless. Last week Dahomey suffered its fifth coup in six years, but this time the takeover was not bloodless. When President Emile Zinsou, 51, an able, French-trained medical doctor, arrived at his seaside palace...
...months ago, after the disappearance of Harold Holt in a tragic swimming accident. Initially, Gorton was immensely popular. He seemed a refreshing change from his two most immediate predecessors: the aloof, Olympian Sir Robert Menzies and the shy. withdrawn Holt. Then troubles began to pile up. Critics cited his penchant for naming unqualified cronies to high ministerial posts, his reluctance to take advice, his generally autocratic manner, and his indiscreet behavior...
...question of all. The basic choice was between a party that promised to abide by the tested ways of the past and one that offered a more innovative approach to the future. In the five general elections since World War II, West German voters unfailingly opted for security, a penchant that has given two decades of unbroken rule to the Christian Democratic Union of Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger. As the current campaign unfolded, however, it seemed that many West Germans might be ready for something new. For the first time since 1930, the revitalized Social Democratic Party of Foreign Minister Willy...
...cutting." He might omit, say, Sodom and Gomorrah from Old Testament stories. But before he is through, he is likely to end up as a compulsive cleaner-"the sort of man who is capable of bringing out an expurgated edition of Wordsworth," as a Victorian clergyman with a penchant for editing was once described...