Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skip up the aisles of Sanders Theater, or in its serene moments, stretch out on its back and smile up at the ceiling, most of the performers held on to it with a mortal fear of spontaneity. Thus two sonatas by Bach and two by Mozart were unduly tame in a generally competent, but uninspired performance...
...anguished outcries over his policies, Nkrumah replied with dictatorial harshness. He ended a wave of strikes against spiraling prices and compulsory savings by clapping strike leaders in jail for daring to criticize him. Last week the tame Ghanaian Parliament-which now has only nine opposition Deputies out of 114 members-passed a bill setting up kangaroo courts, where Nkrumah-appointed judges in secret trials can deal out no-appeal death sentences for political offenses. Some 370 Nkrumah opponents are already in jail under another law by which a man can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial. Ghanaians have been urged...
...paper, the Penn-Harvard game this afternoon in Philadelphia looks like a deceptively tame pushover for the Crimson...
...part of the attack on marriage, Boroff damns Smith girls for "tame monogamy" in their dating habits, and accuses them of "intellectual pallor" and hopelessly middle-class tendencies...
...memebers of Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar's tame Parliament...