Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What emerged in the Express, after editing by the Beaver's own crafty hand, was pretty tame stuff compared to Driberg's harsh portrait of a man who pursued power with "ruthlessness" and "want of principle," only to win widespread distrust, ridicule, disapproval and bantering affection, but no real power. Beaverbrook passed up Driberg's most damaging thrusts. Samples...
Harry Hopkins and Averell Harriman needed each other. While Hopkins could usher Harriman into Government importance, Harriman could introduce Hopkins into a life of croquet, champagne and social elegance. Through Hopkins, Harriman became one of the New Deal's "tame millionaires"-so tame, in fact, that some of his Wall Street friends could hardly believe...
...also coy. But much bovine erudition has gone into it. Although the writing is tame and woolly, those at home in this overgrazed field will consider the book right up there at the point of the lowing herd of longhorn literature...
...race for Cambridge City Council has suddenly degenerated into one of the worst name-calling affairs in many years. Unlike the tame contest for School Committee, the City Council election currently features charges of corruption and immorality that have gotten citizens excited--if not well-informed. Yet while the accusations fly back and forth, the basic issue in the Council contest remains the same as in the School election: giving the Cambridge Civic Association the chance to show what good government can accomplish...
Pioneer epics dote on heroes who can tame the land but not themselves. In The Tree of Man, the primitive Australian back country tames, tempers and sorely tries a Job-like settler. Stan Parker is the kind of harassed hero O'Neill and Dreiser used to delight in-the simple, inarticulate man groping his way towards the meaning of life while fate trips him up with distressing regularity. And like O'Neill and Dreiser, Australian-born Author White (Happy Valley, The Aunt's Story) more often drags than carries the reader with him through Stan...