Word: mold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mitchell are both remarkable individuals and would be superb additions to their respective tickets--if they can be persuaded to join the race. To be sure, they are not the only favorable candidates. Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel is a Vietnam veteran and campaign finance reformer straight from the McCain mold. On a Bush ticket, he would likely appeal to many of the same voters that McCain was able to bring into the political arena. California Sen. Diane Feinstein has also had a distinguished legislative career and supports gun control, abortion rights and health care initiatives. Either would be solid additions...
...rule, old popes don't retire; they sit upon St. Peter's throne until called to their reward. John Paul is of the mold. Though he turns 80 in May and suffers from Parkinson's disease and a bad hip, the frail Pontiff has given no hint that he will be the first in six centuries to resign. Certainly John Paul will at least finish out Jubilee Year 2000 as Pope--God willing...
...Everybody recognizes the great potential of the Reform party, and since the party is in its infancy, we have lots of different people trying to mold it to their own ideologies or add a little extra feature here or there," Rhoads writes in an e-mail message. "We aren't just a bunch of blind followers, so every little thing gets contested...
Danny Cheng didn't graduate from an elite overseas university or acquire information-technology training--and a PalmPilot full of contacts--in Silicon Valley. Instead, Cheng, who is 33, fits the mold of an old-fashioned Asian entrepreneur: he worked his way up from humble Hong Kong beginnings. "My family was poor," says Cheng. "At the beginning of each month, we had to worry about...
...typecast as the short, cute 17-year-old. Despite some disappointment from agents that she is not six feet tall, Emmy has never let anything hold her back. At an event earlier this year to model formalwear for J.C. Penney, Emmy was once again placed into the teen-queen mold. iOther models my age, all of whom were taller, got to wear college-age cocktail dresses,i she remembers. iI got stuck in the prom and homecoming wear. I felt better when my eescorti model told me he played football for Dartmouth. It took me awhile to figure out that...