Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only solution to their troubles. At the height of the depression, in 1932, a small group of students met in Leverett House D-41 and formed the John Reed Club. Devoted to the study of "scientific Marxism" and to education, the Reed Club was strictly intellectual and comparatively tame. In fact, it might never have attracted attention had it not immortalized by Norman Mailer '37 in one of his flashbacks in "The Naked and the Dead...
Before 1943, he was the Duce's tame intellectual, a pet journalist of Fascism, who, as special correspondent for Milan's Corriere delta Sera, was fed rich scoops of news on the silver spoon of favoritism. When the war began to turn against the Axis, so did Malaparte's pen. He was punished with brief confinement in a Rome prison, then allowed to retire to a Capri villa; there he was liberated by the Allied forces. Malaparte promptly put all his inside information about high Fascist circles at the disposal of the Allied command, and was rewarded...
...week's end, Jimmy and his three companions were scheduled for return to Detroit and the civilization they love. Wolf-fancier Smits was disappointed. Said he: "Dogs go wild readily, but these wolves were just too tame...
...drought in, one of the most formidable regions of a formidable continent. For seven years, the Missouri Valley has been the scene of one of the greatest land and water control and development projects ever attempted, a spectacular 35-year, $15 billion state & federal public works program designed to tame the huge watershed, stretching from the Mississippi River to the Great Divide. Since August 1945, when the ten valley states and six federal agencies joined in an informal, voluntary federation (the Interagency Committee) to put the Missouri Valley development program into effect, engineers have...
Since February of this year, a new eleven-man presidential fact-finding commission, headed by Editor James E. Lawrence of the Lincoln (Neb.) Star, has been holding hearings across the valley, listening to arguments about how to tame the valley. Last week, in Chairman Lawrence's home city, the commission concluded its hearings and prepared to file its report and conclusions with the President. Whatever future administration is recommended, it is dead certain that the giant construction program will go on and that huge sums of money will continue to be spent on Pick-Sloan projects...