Word: mold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the fleet consisted mostly of standard inboards and outboards that might have come from a showroom window. But Jerry Langer's No. 10 was strictly do-it-yourself. An out-board-engine dealer from Miami Beach, Langer had borrowed a Fiberglas mold, poured himself a hull, tacked two ordinary 90-h.p. motors on the back. Just before the race, he decided that he didn't like the pitch of his propellers, so he took a hammer and pounded away until they looked "about right...
...GUATEMALA Volunteers will be assigned to largely Indian areas in rural Guatemala. They will work in such areas as agriculture, health, small industries, home arts and cooperatives, attempting to mold attitudes favorable to development, providing machinery through which villagers may help themselves and imparting needed skills...
...grunted Edwin H. Bigelow, 79, ex-president of the Squash Association. "He'll wear his laurels more easily, I think, than the Niederhoffer boy." Niederhoffer's problem is that he does not quite fit the trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent mold of the gentleman squash player...
...French tried after World War II to mold Viet Nam into a tractable nation by vesting authority in a central government and playing off one village against another. Instead, the Viet Minh imposed a harsh unity in the country side that broke the French grip. In South Viet Nam, President Ngo Dinh Diem hoped to form a nation that was safe from Viet Cong influence by gathering the peasants into fortified hamlets. That idea died behind the barbed wire of the hamlets in 1963-along with Diem...
...hits and near-hits, and the "B" list of new songs that the stations music committee, composed of management and the disc jockeys on a rotating basis, has selected from the more than 300 new songs the station receives each week) and is also in the position to mold tastes by his comments and choice of songs...