Word: tame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failed to invest them with a sense of rootedness. The songs do not seem connected to their cultural traditions, be it Appalachian string music, Irish jug band music or African-American blues. Even when they play a great tune, as in the traditional "Wildwood Flower," the solos are surprisingly tame to the point of boredom...
...Tigger after the Winnie-the-Pooh character -- the whole family had A.A. Milne nicknames -- because she was a "healthy bouncy beast." When she was five, the family moved to Southern Rhodesia, hearts set on the wealth to be had in farming and mining. But a crippled man could hardly tame the bush; living was rough and laborious...
...kind of tame," said Terri J. Halperin '97, standing among the water-logged crowd. "I'm from a high school where football was big. [But here], people have other things to do, like problem sets...
...brutal standards of Campaign '94 this is tame stuff, but it marks a distinct change for Foley. In past years, he ran his races quietly and mildly, with ads that showed him standing in a wheatfield and talking about his homesteader roots, or walking the Capitol corridors with his beloved Belgian shepherd Alice, who used to go to work with him. He is, after all, a man who began his congressional career three decades ago by holding a reception for the man he defeated. Nethercutt, who had been blasting Foley for months, seemed genuinely surprised by the Democrat...
...true to form, the Harvard student body has filled the posterboard with such comments as "They get good parking spaces." Other notable entries: "They always want to be called something-something challenged." And then there are the less tame entries that will not be repeated on this, an editorial page of a family newspaper...