Word: molds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communists were frozen out of power with the inauguration of the cold war and slumped into a thoroughly Stalinist mold. Indeed, the first word of anti-Soviet criticism from the P.C.F. did not come until the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, and even that was muted. In the same year, the party dashed the faith of many leftist true believers by refusing to support the insurrectionist "May events," which eventually undermined De Gaulle's presidency. The Communists saw no opportunity to take control of the worker-student rebellion that shook France, and therefore labeled it counterrevolutionary...
...Coach Kit Morris, she notes. "He has all the patience and perseverance to mold our team from a mediocre club sport to a winning varsity one. Kit made us practice at 7 a.m. every February morning. He said if we really wanted to win this is what we had to do. We practiced more indoors in the preseason than all of last year outdoors. he was right. It paid off--he's a superb coach...
...obvious that the netwomen have come a long way in a short time span, but Felske has a surprisingly casual attitude. "I'm not of the Vince Lombardi mold at all," he says, adding, "I've been a pretty good friend to my players--maybe too much of one. The good guys often finish last in this business...
...originality. It is a pity that the film was released now: it might have made good drive-in fare. At last, we see the truth about the Italian Stallion: Rocky was a fluke, a rough-cut diamond of a film. By Stallone's inability to break out of the mold of the illiterate boxer, we perceive that the man cannot act any role but that of Sylvester Stallone. He is doomed to be the matinee idol, the star of B-movies like Nighthawks or, God forbid, Rocky III. He is just another fighter who put too much into his first...
...Gainesville meet. And Ron Young, former Pleasant Hill coach and newly-arrived Nashville Aquatic coach says, "Tracy is a team leader, a super citizen and a super person. She fits right in with everyone on the team and doesn't demand any special attention--besides, the Muhammad Ali mold has no place in our program...