Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasionally be caught by hand. Natives also captured live adults for von Hagen by stunning them in the open with slingshots. If confined after capture, the grown birds are likely to beat themselves to death, unless they are given an injection of sedatives, but they soon become very tame, eating out of hands and perching on fingers. Their favorite delicacy: avocados...
Observing gloomily that "it took over six centuries to tame the barbarians that took possession of the Roman Empire," Columbia University's Historian Carlton J. H. Hayes wondered how long it would take to tame "the barbarians that are now infesting Europe." In the eyes of Princeton's Dr. Charles Rufus Morey, Marquand professor of art and archeology, the deluge had already arrived. Said he: "Never in the history of civilized art has humanity cut so poor a figure. Whatever is base, whatever is open to derision, whatever is ugly in human existence, is made a major theme...
After ten months fighting with the Finish army and the French Foreign Legion and serving the Czech, Norwegian, and French civil governments, this year may well seem a bit tame for John Crane-Baker...
...mice, tame as they could he, were finally gathered together by David Coulter, the CRIMSON'S braw caretaker. David cornered the redents with the aid of a vacuum cleaner...
...made when he was only 23. He was in command of the small Jouet des Plots, stitching along the west coast of Africa; his business was to buy up wild animals for the circuses, zoos, rich amateurs of Europe. He acquired, among other beasts, a panther, a magnificent, tame, young lion, a buffalo, a young elephant, a hyena, a dwarf hippopotamus, two little sacred pythons whose delight was to weave themselves upon his ankles. The buffalo broke loose in the hold, one of the chimpanzees piteously died. Ashore Demaison ran into snake-sorcerers, a terrific flogging scene, a yellow fever...