Word: mold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consequently a chance at the governorship. But that should not surprise too many. Despite his previous absence from the political stage, he has two of the state's leading Republican strategists mapping out his path to the corner office of the statehuse. He also fits the New Politician's mold quite well. He is perceived as attractive and eloquent. He has the smile, the hand-pumping style, the "Hi, nice to meet you" greeting He's ethnic (Armenian) and a Vietnam...
...Loulan J. Pitre '83, co-chairman of the Dunster House Committee, expresses skepticism as to how much influence the Master should have. "The personality of the Master should not determine the personality of the House because students should have an opportunity to mold the community," Pitre says, adding, "Every year a new group of people moves into the Houses and a new community is forged...
...Saarinen suddenly died just as his growing firm was moving into a Teutonic mansion in Hamden, Conn. Roche and Dinkeloo took over the business and kept the Saarinen promise. "What Saarinen taught us," says Roche, who became an American citizen in 1964, "is not to find a new mold or formula for producing architecture like so many automobiles, but to design each building with a fresh enthusiasm for meeting its specific requirements...
Jack Nicklaus was not the first to discover that nobody loves a fat man, but he made characteristic use of the information. Nicklaus slimmed himself into a model for a line of clothes and a mold for a line of golfers: towheads shaped like one-irons. The definition of an avid golf fan now is anyone who can tell Johnny Miller from John Mahaffey from Ben Crenshaw from Bill Rogers from Jerry Pate...
Cocksure and with a track record of travel that includes a stint in the Peace Corps. Paul Theroux, too, has styled himself in the mold of those American writers who demand consideration of their contribution to the literature of travel. He writes about the world as if a were a marvelously crafted gadget to be pulled apart and played with, something wondrous in all its aspects yet entirely susceptible to the grasp of his imagination...