Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chafee fits the traditional mold of the Northeastern liberal Republican. He favors national health insurance, but also supports plans to drill for oil off the New England costs and a freeze on real estate taxes. His position as Secretary of the Navy under former president Nixon might hurt Chafee's chances, especially because the closing of Rhode Island navy bases in 1973--after Chafee left the government--seriously exacerbated the state's unemployment problems...
Your founding fathers proclaimed the people's liberty and their right to mold their own destiny. Their vision and eloquence inspired Americans and influenced the freedom movements of many countries...
...Chairman's next task will probably be to establish his own trademark, creating a distinctive and inspiring style of rule. That may turn out to be difficult for a man who has proved himself so far to be a competent administrator but hardly a charismatic leader in the mold of Mao. Nonetheless for the moment at least, Hua seems to be the triumphant beneficiary of the old Chinese proverb: "He who conquers is crowned king; the vanquished become brigands...
...white politicians put in power under these circumstances most often fell in the George Wallace/Orval Faubus mold, that is, rhetorically populist and politically conservative. They did nothing to help organized labor and little--as far as eradicating consumer taxes or properly financing education and health, or eliminating residency requirements for receiving unemployment compensation--to meet poor whites' social needs. The local business and landed establishment in states like North Carolina and Alabama, consequently, stayed within the state and nominally, the national, Democratic coalition, giving the South its one-party character...
...changes on campus bother Kimball. The Harvard he knew two years ago, he says, was a more cosmopolitan place. "The people I knew on the wrestling team freshman year were different, came from entirely different backgrounds, but now they all fit into the Harvard mold. I'm afraid that's what happens from being here...