Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stamped from the Mold Theory...
...abducted youth did not seem to fit the mold of either his father or his fiery grandfather and namesake "Mr. Sam" (who shrewdly built the family fortune but sometimes hurled dishes when angry). Young Sam has seemed a bit brash and arrogant to outsiders, but friends at Williams found him "relaxed" about his wealth and "even-tempered." No jet-setter, he was interested primarily in sport. Strong and wiry (6 ft. 3 in., 185 Ibs.), he had played tennis and basketball at Williams and possessed an encyclopedic mind for sport trivia. He had been looking forward to starting work...
...success tinged with irony. Phoebe, 25, is actually a jazz singer in the mold of Billie Holiday. As yet she lacks the white-hot intensity of Lady Day, but the pain that wrenches her voice is genuine. She sings from deep personal emotion, with lightning improvisation and embellished phrases...
More than 35 million Americans suffer from allergies-the irritating and sometimes incapacitating ailments caused by overreaction of the body's immune system to substances like ragweed pollen, mold spores or a wide variety of foods. Doctors have for decades sought better ways to alleviate allergy symptoms, which include sneezing, shedding tears, itching and swelling. Now, after three years of work, Dr. Robert Hamburger, 52, of the University of California at San Diego, has synthesized a small molecule that interferes with the immune mechanism and helps prevent the discomforts of the allergic...
Chen knows that it becomes boring to swoon over each phrase of a piece without giving a strong sense of direction to the whole. So in his conducting, he takes extreme care to shape and mold the large sections. Last summer he did some work on Beethoven's Eighth Syphony with the Summer School Orchestra. The first movement of this piece is a big shout of excitement, energetic and very loud for the most part, with many fortissimo markings. However, at the beginning of the recapitulation, there is the only fortississimo marked, a distinction that is not easy to make...