Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Sirica does not readily fit the heroic mold. He speaks softly and in inelegant phrases studded with "Ya know what I mean" and "You know me." The judicial sternness of his photographs gives way in person to an unpretentious openness, conveying his wonder at all the attention he is receiving. Belying his tough-guy reputation, Sirica (pronounced Suh-rick-uh) has been known to get butterflies in his stomach when he has peeked into his courtroom and seen it jammed for a Watergate-related hearing. He carefully writes down and reads most pronouncements from the bench, not trusting...
...Kleppe, head of the Small Business Administration, does not fit the cautious mold of the Washington bureaucrat. A self-made North Dakota business success (Glass Wax), he keeps a pair of six guns mounted on an office wall, wears electric blue shirts with dazzling horseshoe cufflinks, speaks bluntly −and is now taking some perhaps inevitable lumps. Kleppe's most recent troubles began when he went to Congress to ask for an expansion of SB A lending authority from $4.3 billion to $6.6 billion. He ran into a barrage of allegations that suggested an embarrassing range of SBA malfeasance...
...tends 25 plants in her room, loves to do needle point, and dotes on her Siamese cat, Chan. All four children feel unusually close to their father. Explains Jack: "He never tried to mold us or direct us. He allowed us room to explore for ourselves, to find ourselves." Exclaims Susan: "He's the perfect father...
There is, then, nowhere for those players who played freshman soccer but who were not able to make the quantum leap to the varsity team to go. For these players the soccer program no longer provides a means of training players, of spending the time and effort to mold this talent into a unit, or of allowing them to discover the extent of their potential...
Coach William Cleary has his work cut out for him. He has to mold a disciplined, well-conditioned unit if he hopes to overcome the had luck-of-the-draw as far as opponents are concerned. Working against him, however, is a lack of experience, especially in the defensive corps...