Word: tame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simultaneously the third wave of the revolution was sweeping across President Florencio Harmodio Arosemena's famed Moorish patio, disturbing the tortoise in his fountain pool, causing the tame white cranes and the egrets to wake up and squawk. Warned by these fowl, the guards of the Presidential Pal ace were alert. They raked the first group of advancing revolutionists with a volley, scattered them in headlong flight...
Once more that potent name worked magic. Tame as kittens, the Deputies ratified by a vote...
...Tame and Yellow. Returning from his third season in the Orinoco Valley, Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, staff member of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, described 50 more previously unexplored miles of the Orinoco River. He had stories to tell of unusually small ducks, jet black parrots, red morning glories as big as saucers. Dr. Dickey called upon the Guaharibos Indians who, someone had told him, were white and mean. Instead he found them yellow and sweet-tempered. They wear no clothes, live in the Stone Age manner. Dr. Dickey had taken harmonicas with him for gifts, discovered...
Actually the expose was tame, consisted of stolen Fascist papers which, if genuine, prove: 1) that the 107 new Fascist deputies will enter the Reichstag and "insidiously refrain" from blatant, obstructionist tactics, biding their time; 2) that Hitler agents will begin a secret campaign to proselytize the army and state police for Fascism; 3) finally, after much boring from within the German government by legal means, a surething Fascist Putsch will be attempted...
...broad heavy head, large curved horns, can live on Arctic vegetation which would starve a reindeer. Because of their hardy qualities, attempts were made two years ago to domesticate them for use as Arctic cows. Capt. Robert Abram Bartlett, leader of the Northeast Greenland Expedition, has two tame musk ox mascots which he captured in Greenland. Under its shaggy coat, the musk ox has a close covering of woolly fleece which experiments (at the University of Leeds, England) have shown to be excellent for cloth. It dyes and bleaches well, is as soft as cashmere, does not shrink. The meat...