Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people have: the ability to enjoy and laugh at life. This world takes itself too seriously, and enjoyment of anything seems to be taken as a subversion of the "great meaning of life." So, Mr. Namath, please continue to sit back and smile at the world that would mold you into its conformity, and enjoy, enjoy. MARY ELLEN HEKHUIS Gulf Breeze...
...jump motorcycles as a hobby. A college football and rugby enthusiast, Biden keeps his athletic trim by skiing and playing an extremely rough brand of touch football. That kind of exuberant roughhousing, coupled with his star-quality good looks, seems to cast Biden, an Irish Catholic, in the Kennedy mold. The Kennedy comparison is encouraged by the intense involvement of his family in the current campaign: Joe's sister is his campaign manager, his brother is his fund-raising director, his mother is his state "coffee coordinator." His wife Neilia, a pretty blonde, keeps her own energetic speaking schedule...
...most conspicuous consumption imaginable, includes in its Christmas catalogue an offering extraordinary even by its standards. It will sell plaster dummies priced at $3,000 each, with a limit of two to a customer; the buyer must lie down for half an hour while a complete plaster mold is made of his face and body, and store men record him laughing and saying yes (or crying and saying no) on a tape that is inserted into the dummy. What consumers can do with the dummies after all that bother, the Neiman-Marcus nabobs do not say; one waggish suggestion...
...play of Malone has been one of the vital forces behind Cornell's fast start. The halfback has picked up 427 yards in the first three games, for a 142 per game average. Malone is a workhorse in the Marinaro mold -- he has lugged the ball 84 times in three games for a 5.1-yard average...
...points out, Connally and Johnson were polished politicians, adept at their art, and in that way much unlike their successors, Smith, Mutscher, and the rest, whom the author calls "second stringers." Only one man among them Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, seemed to be cast directly from the Johnson-Connally mold. And even Barnes, despite being more clever and more personable than his fellow legislators, had his political fortunes spoiled by his association with the Smith-Mutscher clan...