Word: mold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powers will reduce tariffs sharply between one another, leaving Britain at a trade disadvantage. The continental Six are also inching toward some form of political as well as economic unity. A rising chorus of British voices demands that Britain shrug off its reluctance and take the plunge before the mold of European unity hardens with Britain outside. "Time is not working for us," cried the influential Lord Gladwyn,* urging British membership in the Common Market. "The great thing is to get negotiations started now!" A passel of influential British editorialists are nudging the government to take action...
...disorderly Stanleyville, a city of about 130,000, the Congolese soldiers are so unpredictable in their loyalty that Gizenga has three times asked for U.N. protection from his own army. Jungle mold grows thick on factory walls, and unemployment is almost total. The troops and officials have drunk up the stocks of imported cognac at the best hotels and are now reduced to palm beer. Gasoline and munitions are in short supply...
Actually, Spaak needed little urging to leave NATO. He has long felt stymied in his efforts to extend NATO beyond what the U.S. and several other Western powers feel is its proper function as a defensive military alliance. They have blocked Spaak's efforts to mold NATO into a political and economic force capable of combating Communist infiltration in Africa and Asia, argued that NATO is not the proper organization for economic enterprise. At the NATO ministers' meeting last December, Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lord Home, vetoed a suggestion for NATO aid to underdeveloped nations, said that...
...taken the trouble to consider carefully why all the evils he points out have come about. Thus, he is unclear about the relationship between the newspaper and its readership, about whether the nature of the society determines the nature of its newspapers or whether the newspapers can mold the tastes and interests of the society. (If the former is the case, there is little point in giving newspaper editors hell for providing the public with what it wants.) And he devotes insufficient attention to the problem of the newsmagazines--how they have responded to a public demand and what they...
Finally, addition of tutecs not really interested in the present structure is likely to serve only to convince already skeptical departments that these students cannot profit from tutorial instruction. A more realistic explanation is that they are simply unprepared to get much from tutorial cast in the present mold, and this the administrators should know already...