Word: mold
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After college, Lott returned to Pascagoula and practiced law. But within a year, he was offered a top staff job in Washington by the district's veteran Congressman, William Colmer, who chaired the powerful Rules Committee. Colmer was a staunch segregationist, in the mold of other legendary Southern Democrats of the time, including Senators Richard Russell of Georgia and William Fulbright of Arkansas. When Colmer announced his retirement in 1972, Lott declared his candidacy for the seat--as a Republican--and eventually won his mentor's endorsement...
...other children sleep on the floor upstairs. Her brother Reginald, 35, who has cancer, sleeps in another corner with his two sons, 10 and 15. It's toughest when the basement floods. "Sometimes the sewer backs up," says Hollow Horn, "and it just gets all over down there." Black mold has already consumed one wall underneath the staircase and is eating its way up the other...
...make Listings a page some people, sometimes, were compelled to read. As chair of FM, Liz will find her perfect niche. She’ll still encourage the designers while sporting her BCBG, but somewhere in the newsroom she’ll nestle down next to a writer and mold text without making the author remember that their story was less-than-fabulous in the beginning. (She edited my cheating story via with this method in the wee hours of Wednesday morning last week and it would have been gibberish without her.) But if Liz is the left shoe, she?...
...really encourages creative insights. There is less emphasis on fitting the mold than at other labs,” he said...
...think boxers are stupid?" he asks. Well, maybe because of events like last week's press conference by former wbc title-holder Mike Tyson, who announced that he's ready to return to the ring and is "tired of being stupid." But the Klitschko brothers break that sorry old mold. They hold Ph.D.s in sports science from the University of Kiev, have cowritten a book on fitness, speak several languages and are ace chess players. And they may be having some influence on their colleagues. Lewis has become a chess devotee, although he hasn't yet matched the Klitschkos' prowess...