Word: molds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...post-cold war role. Instead he produced a timid and unimaginative plan that trimmed but did not reform the military. Yet he is a skillful facilitator and is seen as "an honest broker who can get things done." This does not make him a general in the mold of Eisenhower. But even the four-star general who calls Powell a tinkerer concludes that "I would vote for him if he runs...
...newspapers and magazines, the Apollo astronauts were portrayed as heroes in the old mold: God-fearin', jut-jawed, steely-eyed missilemen, gazing into the skies they would soon conquer. These brainy jocks with their laconic C.B. chatter and their diplomas from M.I.T., Princeton, Caltech and Harvard were icons of stability in a most fractious decade. Americans looked across the Pacific and saw defeat. They looked at their campuses and saw revolt; at their inner cities and saw flames. For inspiration there was nowhere to look...
...life then and my life now hardly seem tobelong to the same person, but it was then thatthe mold was cast. It just took me a while to fitinto...
...think he would be very much in the mold of Justice Breyer, a centrist civil libertarian," Dershowitz said. "I think he'd be a tremendous intellectual addition to the court...
These days, to fit the mold seems to be the most common refrain of popular music. Although this trend is by no means new, the music industry's ever-expanding tentacles have squeezed more and more original talents into discrete and binding marketing categories. What made the New York City quarter Soul Coughing's show at The Paradise so worthwhile was the bizarre, original nature of their music, a style which largely defies classification...