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...only partly right. There is no recorded case of a wolf in the wild ever attacking a human being. But there are cases of wolves in captivity attacking human beings.' I said: 'Of course I was talking about wolves in the wild. I would never use a tame wolf. Take a wild wolf, put it in there, and when the wolf becomes tame, you replace it. [The Greater Jamaica Chamber of Commerce is in stitches.] "Now what I am telling is a true story...
While the implications of Amparan's proposal are staggering, the plan itself is pretty tame-and quite simple. No cash ever changes hands. Instead, each month students are issued "privilege cards," which the graphic arts teacher prints up in his free time, using school equipment...
They descended upon Princeton, N.J., hoping to tame the local beasts. But the Harvard golf team encountered fierce competition from both the Tigers and rival Dartmouth, and wound up in third place in last weekend's Ivy League Championships...
...explanation than primitives do for luck's strange intercessions, but they generally adopt a strategy both passive and fatalistic, a stoical mixture of rationalism and resignation to luck's works. Today it is mainly gamblers who stay on intimate and dangerous terms with luck and try to tame and possess it. Here and there, state lotteries have tried to bureaucratize luck-a dreary business and a contradiction in terms...
They growled and clawed more than a little bit at the beginning. A few of them, most notably head coach Ted Garber, were still snapping and snarling right down to the end. But for the most part the University of New Hampshire Wildcats proved pretty easy to tame...