Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stomach Ulcers. Victims are aggressive, try to dominate other people, mold their environment to suit themselves. They are self-conscious and have strong likes and dislikes. Their eyes are sullen, their mouths firm; they have a "lean and hungry" look...
During World War II, Adolf Hitler did his best to exterminate them. They joined his other victims in the gas chambers. No one knows how many died thus; the gypsies were never good at bookkeeping. Now, new forces are trying to mold them into new patterns. In Bulgaria, they have their own deputy in Parliament; in Yugoslavia, they have their own party (which faithfully follows the Communist line...
...impurity get into the glucose? Best guess of the Cutter Laboratories: the bottles were jarred in shipment and their rubber stoppers loosened. When the vacuum was broken, air rushed in and bacteria formed a poisonous mold that grew readily in the glucose. Laboratory technicians pointed out that all boxes of glucose they ship contain this warning to doctors: make sure that the vacuum has not been broken, and beware of cloudiness, a sign of contamination...
...last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade Organization, a project which, in the somewhat startling words of Sir Stafford Cripps, "had never before been attempted except at the tower of Babel." At Havana, where the nations convened last November to mold the Geneva draft into final shape, Babel's spirit still prevailed...
...faults of most young writers, they try, often successfully, to be original, and their work represents a colossal improvement over the material in last fall's numbers of Signature. There are four short stories, all of them sensitive and honest, and none shows any effort of the author to mold his work to fit the frayed banalities of the slick magazines...