Word: tame
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...from most counters: pajamas, children's clothes, cribs, playpens and even rattles, watches, and-above all -good whiskeys. When a Washington D.C. liquor store advertised that it actually had 8,000 bottles of real rye, bourbon and Scotch for sale, a mob that made a football crowd seem tame waited outside through ten freezing hours for a chance to carry away a bottle...
...worse killer than cancer, high blood pressure each year causes the death of countless thousands of its estimated 6,000,000 U.S. victims. Last week a reassuring new manual for laymen reported that modern medicine can do much to tame the disease. Written by able specialist Dr. Irvine Heinly Page of Indianapolis this extraordinarily readable book (Hypertension; Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill.; $1.50) is calculated to calm most panicky patients...
...Chapman and Keats went on tour with a pair of performing bears. Keats refused to believe they were tame and harmless, but consented to feed them. Chapman found Keats injecting a local anesthetic into the bears. They were numb but upright. "Chapman flew into a feverish temper and demanded the reason for this brutal and cynical outrage. 'There's safety in numb bears,' Keats said...
...retrospect, the exam didn't seem half so bad as it did at the time. And if the account current problem could somehow have been lost or forgotten, the rest of it would have been lost or forgotten, the rest of it would have seemed a little tame. But the A/C got most everybody so on edge that he didn't know what the other problems were about...
...moment I hoped, wildly, that this gentleman . . . was, indeed, about to be shorn of his locks. However, nothing so apropos happens in this life. I found to my disappointment that a tame and civilized barber, far from doubling for Delilah, was merely obeying Mr. Lewis' orders. These were for his usual soup bowl haircut, accentuating the top foliage...