Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wearer of an All-American tag is supposed to be a good athlete, well, Herold fits the mold. Currently in his third year occupying the goal for Harvard. "Freedo" (a nickname that somehow sounds too exotic for the even-keeled Herold) has compiled slightly under 2.0 goals-against average...
...turned out to be executor with full administrative powers over the estate-possibly because H.L. had doted on Ray as the only son of his second marriage. Discord soon developed between Ray and his three older halfbrothers, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar.* If not eccentrics in H.L.'s mold, they are at least wheeler-dealers. Bunker, in particular, has grabbed headlines with gaudy speculations in silver and soybeans. To resolve the conflict, Ray agreed in mid-1975 to split the empire in two. Bunker, Herbert and Lamar took over management of a new company, Hunt Energy Corp.; Ray retained control...
...critics protested, Carter's program was being efficiently spirited through the mazes of congressional committees. Taking personal charge of the legislation, House Speaker Tip O'Neill set up a special ad hoc energy committee under Ohio Democrat Thomas ("Lud") Ashley. That committee's job was to mold into one hill the legislation that emerged from various committees. Even as those hearings were under way, the House and Senate were also studying Carter's other keystone energy proposal-a bill to create a new Department of Energy...
Following commencement, Wald will leave for Rome and Tokyo to participate in conferences on nuclear armaments and nuclear power. He plans to return to his home in Woods Hole, Mass., to write on scientific topics and maintain his political activities. Even though he never fit the institutional mold and eschewed gray flannels for a turtleneck sweater and medallion, Wald has left an indelible mark upon Harvard. He is at times "a pain in the neck to the administration," as one admirer says, but he is still universally respected in spite or because of his politics...
...time of Nixon, Cambodia, and Gulf in Angola, with the April 1969 bust and Kent State in between. What comes as a surprise is that the novel, The Shad Treatment, is about the mud and blood of a Virginia governor's race in the classic populist-versus-conservative mold, and that it's good...