Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Bob Hope movies and American Legion war games of the McCarthy epoch. These imply that motion pictures are instruments of behavioral conditioning: we fought the Viet Nam War because the screen trained us to hate the Red Menace and the Yellow Peril. The notion that films so easily mold an audience trivializes evil...
...about 75% of all scoliosis victims, some form of corrective device -usually a Milwaukee-brace* is prescribed. The brace consists of a girdle that fits around the hips and three vertical bars that attach at the top to a neck ring and throat mold. Early models -made of leather and steel, and quite heavy-have given way to lightweight aluminum-and-plastic versions that are still neither attractive nor comfortable. But they do work, redirecting the growth of the spine to help it to grow straight. "Shoe lifts and exercises alone are not proper treatment for progressive scoliosis," says...
From its position stop a hill in western Jerusalem, the Israeli Knesset overlooks most of the new city. It is a rectangular stone building whose austere lines and sharp angles mold a basically classical exterior. Inside, the Israeli government meets to make decisions that will determine its country's future...
...mean to criticize them-we don't first break a man down and then rebuild him. We think that he should be able to think for himself. He should respond to orders, but we don't want to set him in a mold...
...achievement is based on living up to one's potential to help others, not on quantifying and analyzing them. Others of us will ignore our Harvard training and, finding the lessons the real world has to offer more interesting, start over. Still others will find a way to successfully mold the two together...