Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost as uniformly as Japanese industry turns out transistors. The country's first ten postwar Premiers all reached power in their 60s or 70s, and most were equipped with identical attributes: samurai ancestries, diplomas from Tokyo University, decades of self-effacing service in government bureaucracies. Last week the mold was shattered when the Japanese Diet in a special session elected International Trade and Industry Minister Kakuei Tanaka, 54, the country's eleventh Premier since 1945. A muscular, self-made millionaire (construction, real estate) who has only a grade-school education, Tanaka takes charge of the world...
...academic year just past brought many far reaching changes to the Harvard community. A new President took office and began to mold the University in his own image. Protest, centering around the war and Harvard's ownership of Gulf Oil stock, disrupted the normal routine of the community...
...such high-spirited diversions as driving the pace car for the Indianapolis 500 at 100 m.p.h. She has regretted not being able to see their children (Wallace has four) much while campaigning, but has told them: "Your father's work must come first. You've got to mold your life around...
...intriguing on the Dollfuss assassination, partly because he lived through it all as a young adult. Maass finds it hard to capture the personality of his diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.) "Milli-Metternich." But he shows effectively how Dollfuss forced his "Christian corporate state" too suddenly into a totalitarian mold, basing his power on a single official party while socialists plotted on the left and Austrian Nazis on the right. Maass also demonstrates the appalling lack of official reaction when the government learned of the plot to overthrow it in July 1934. Austria had become such a "nation of informers...
...Without the support of the people who mold public opinion in this country, we're not going to be successful in solving the problems that exist for Black Americans," Clay said. "So with that in mind, that is why the Congressional Black Caucus decided number one on having this conference at Harvard--with all of the prestige that goes along with that. And that is why we decided to have as co-sponsors of this conference such distinguished newspapers as the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Chicago Sun-Times...