Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brainy team leader in the mold of the Los Angeles Rams' Roman Gabriel, Plunkett is the kind of drop-back passer that professional scouts dream about. The pro recruiters will have to hold off until after New Year's Day, however, for Plunkett and Stanford have all but clinched a bid to the Rose Bowl, an honor that has prompted Jim's teammates to call him H.T.C.-short for "Heisman Trophy Candidate...
...arrived. Goodell, Duffey, Hoff, Tydings, and Gore all met defeat at the hands of Nixon men. Yet as the morning wore on and the cameras began to focus on the Western boards, the results were different. In Indiana, Utah, Nevada, North Dakota, and Wyoming, where Conservatives of the true mold had given their votes to the Republicans in 1968, the Administration bootlickers met ignominious defeat. And in California, a topsy-turvy state where currents and trends are so many and so strong, where San Jose had whipped the reactionary conservatives into their rabid finest, John Tunney beat George Murphy...
This way a person who "by design or failure" did not make much money would not be saddled with a crippling debt, while those who-in the traditional Harvard mold-ended up in more financially rewarding careers would pay a premium...
Agathon was once a handsome and ambitious academic-political young man, an Archaic Period Kissinger to the John Mitchell of Lycurgus, the famous lawgiver who recast the constitution of Sparta in a fierce authoritarian mold. Now Agathon is a drunken old bum. In between, he has fought a battle disguised as a woman, seduced and married the daughter of an archon, helped the Ionian philosophers invent humanism, rationalism and Western civilization, betrayed his best friend to the Athenian FBI, and made love to the wives of all his friends. By teaching his greatest love, a Helot woman, to read...
...Harriet Wednesday nights and living for the show's last five minutes, when Ricky Nelson sang a couple of his latest hits. Could I have been as sad a sight as these Bobby Sherman fans? Had I been more than a teenybopper, except that I was in the 1959 mold? Was taking guitar lessons as a fourth grader in order to follow in Rick's footsteps no better than sewing a picture of Bobby Sherman in your panties? I searched my soul...