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Word: fangless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...watched the formal surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, received the first of the five pens with which General MacArthur signed the document. Then, for the supreme moment of his wonder-packed week, he returned to Baguio, to accept the surrender of all Japs in the Philippines from the now fangless "Tiger of Malaya," Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Full Circle | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Ubico used plenty of violence. His police and soldiers ranged the capital, threatening, killing. But the strike did not lose force. Day by day, like a fangless constrictor, it tightened its coils around the encircled tyrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Tyrant Down | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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