Word: mold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scarcely contain their excitement over the discovery. Said James Graham-Camp bell, a medievalist at the University of London: "Nothing of this quality and importance has been found in Ireland in this century." Although it will take a year to restore the chalice, which was caked with a greenish mold, experts are already comparing it to the famed Ardagh chalice, discovered in 1868 in County Limerick and often described as the most beautiful in the world...
With a circulation of 70,000, Star (not to be confused with the similarly named gossip magazine distributed in supermarkets throughout America) can hardly claim to mold public opinion. Boudreaux readily admits that the magazine merely reflects the enthusiastic efforts of amateurs to educate a woefully ignorant public as best...
...Pink Floyd album The Wall [Feb. 25] is a statement of how hard it is to be an artist in the face of overwhelming criticism. The world wants to bend you into its mold, and if you're a nonconformist, people force you to build a wall to protect your identity, your inner being. No one wants to have to build the wall...
...Many people try to fit in the mold of the scholarship they are applying for, and I think that the Marshall people were careful to weed out those applicants," Pakaluk said...
...capture those people, the has-beens, stillares, will-bes and never-weres spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, degrade themselves in public, shake the hands of people they don't know or care to know, plaster friendly if sickly grins on their faces and fit themselves into a mold designed to "maximize" appeal. Little is sacred, because though the sacrifices are great, the reward--a pot of political gold--casts a spell not easily resisted...