Word: mellower
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...young board members often start out with ambitious ideas-that is one advantage of their arrival on the boards-but time and experience inevitably mellow even the most aggressive of the newcomers. Even Larry Hamm. When Board Member Cervase obtained a temporary court injunction last December restraining Newark schools from flying Black Power flags, Hamm took it calmly. Said he: "If the courts don't take care of it, the legislature will." Either way, Hamm says he will obey...
...better make the next number mellow, 'cause I'm about to pass...
...bumps comically along, but the players keep breaking character to bicker with each other. In an explosion of petty grievances they disband, only to regroup for a second act. This time the company attempts Man's rites of passage, and as the actors become engrossed in their story, they mellow into cooperation and exit smiling...
Sometimes after nightfall when Johnson gets mellow, he can remember every sight and sound of that day in 1941 when Sam Rayburn got the draft extended by a single vote, how the Speaker gaveled the House adjourned and jumped out of his chair when he saw a couple of opposing Congressmen coming up the aisle to vote...
...seventy-one, his poetic voice is strong and his speaking voice mellow, as if he just sipped a special elixir--tea and honey, perhaps. Sitting in Robert Fitzgerald's office before his afternoon reading at Boylston auditorium. Tate looks every bit the Southern gentleman--debonair, impeccably dressed, a hint of Basil Ransom, years after The Bostonians, but with the high forehead and thin, tapered fingers reserved for artists and poets...