Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capsule they were to pilot next May was abuilding. To both, the flight had become almost as routine as driving to work. To both, the twin-engine T-38 jet trainer they boarded last week for the 90-minute hop to St. Louis must have seemed about as tame as a tricycle...
...snickering through her lines, but her candy-box wardrobe gets most of the laughs. Sympathetic Dress Designer Louis Jourdan says: "Wild Paris sex is one big cliche. You can have it if you want it-there are specialists who cater to such tastes." Ann-Margret finally settles for the tame American sex offered by Chad Everett, who has Paul Newman's looks, Clark Gable's voice and a rather forceful personality of his own. But the side attraction of one promising new face hardly justifies a trip to Paris...
...wasn't punctuated by a swinging elbow or stick. The referees, who controlled the action better with tackles than whistles, had handed out 28 minutes of penalties and disqualified Harvard defenseman Demment and B.U. wing Bassi for fighting by the end of the second period. But these things were tame compared to a third period donnybrook in which Bob Carr and Ben Smith got in at least five fights before order was restored and the sorry mismatch was played to completion...
...military. He may even take on the faction-ridden, absentee-prone Parliament itself, whose members spend much of their time lobbying to place themselves or friends in key civil service slots. Remarked one member of Parliament last week, more (at this stage) in wonder than in rage: "The tame man we elected has turned into a tiger...
...Tame Squirrels. Actually, Faulkner was at his best when he was informal. He wrote letters to the editor of the Oxford (Miss.) Eagle on such matters as a campaign to legalize the sale of beer ("Yours for a freer Oxford, where publicans can be law-abiding publicans six days a week"), he reported that a hit-run driver had killed his bird dog ("His name was Pete. He was just a dog, a 15-month-old pointer"), and he took an ad to thank the mayor for removing a sign that had been posted near his gate. In a tartly...