Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene is not science fiction. Storm-spotting sensors and the micrometeorological predictions of an orbiting weatherman are well within the reach of today's technology, giving man for the first time in his history the tools at least to tame, if not to conquer, the weather. Weather research has experienced a breakthrough in the past few years, and scientists around the world are rushing to take advantage of what the National Academy of Sciences calls "this new and enormous power to influence the conditions of human life." This year alone the U.S. Government has published some 1,700 pages...
...years of Franco censorship. There were one or two stern provisions in it, however, the foremost of which was that the government could confiscate anything it does not like and prosecute the author. And although the regime had not felt the need to use its powers against the generally tame daily press before, fortnight ago it banned a book edited by José Maria Gil Robles, a Catholic politician, which said that Franco should be followed by a liberal regime, preferably a monarchy...
When the Founding Fathers wrote Article II of the Bill of Rights, they considered that the right to bear arms was eminently sensible for a sober people who had to tame a raw land with hundreds of perilous frontiers. The U.S. of 1966 has no marauding Redcoats or redskins, but it still has plenty of guns. Firearms can be bought by any kook or crook in Maryland pawnshops, in Texas sporting-goods stores or from any one of hundreds of mail-order houses-as the assassination of President Kennedy tragically illustrated...
...scarcely a story at all. The book follows the course of Frank Wynn, the Powder Man of the title, from piney-woods Arkansas to success as a dynamite salesman-a calling not at all improbable in a country where blasting reclaims swampland, opens farm ditches and helps tame the Mississippi in time of flood. Frank dies, having made the discovery that "it had been more fun making his money than having...
When Harvard has a bad time with baseball powerhouses like Army, Navy, and Dartmouth, it can usually fall back on a tame group of seven colleges called the Greater Boston League for a share of local glory. But barring a miracle before the GBL season ends this week, the Crimson won't be in the top spot for the first time in five years...