Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Characters. Paar's plans consisted mostly of organized planlessness. During the past year Jack has tantalized a tame lion with doses of catnip, tangled with a pickpocket named Dominique, who lifted his wallet, belt and wrist watch, sweated through a few falls with a professional wrestler named Killer Kowalski. He has worn funny hats, taken off his pants, climbed up the studio walls. But always, the high points were provided by the talkers - guided or goaded, driven or drawn out by Jack...
...their surprise, Orwell's sponsors of the Left Book Club discovered that they had not sent a tame canary down the mine to expire obligingly while testing the foul air; they had to deal with a cornered mine rat. Having sketched his Daumier-like cartoon of misery, George Orwell turned with ruthless, cold caricature on the socialists themselves, who thought they had the answer to the inhuman conditions he had described...
After the war, old "Pop" turned his hand to the Civil Air Transport, a Chinese commercial line that is healthy and profitable still. This, too, was tame stuff for an incandescent spirit. He took a second wife, a Chinese girl, and she bore him two children to add to the eight he had by his first. But what he needed was another uphill fight to win, and there was none around. Aimless, restless, unhappy, the hooded falcon began to wane. "Pop's face," an old China hand said, "looks like it's worn out three bodies already...
...Baby-Kisser. Periodically, Benevolent Despot Salazar permits Portugal to vote for a rubber-stamp National Assembly or a tame President. The elections are always won by Salazar's National Union Party, and the rules are peculiar: 1) the opposition may campaign for only 30 days, 2) traditionally, the opposition presidential candidates withdraw before election day, 3) anyone who is in opposition must submit to being labeled Communist. 4) Portuguese law firmly prohibits demonstrations of any kind in the streets...
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was getting just about the worst press he had ever received in India. What made everyone mad last week was his threat to resign his office, and then his tame turnabout when Congress Party politicians begged him to stay on (TIME, May 12). New Delhi columnist B. G. Verghese felt that Nehru had come close to "tearing off the mask of complacency and compromise that has been the bane of the Congress Party and the country," only to falter at the last minute: "He compromised without any gain. He threw away the opportunity that he himself...