Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while away their spring vacations in pursuit of sunshine, beer and coeds. This year there was the added stimulus of a sexy film, Where the Boys Are, to bring them running, and the annual invasion was the biggest ever. But, the students discovered, Lauderdale in the spring was dismayingly tame in comparison with the M-G-M script. It was, in fact, just one big. frustrating bore, and the problem was to find something...
Nothing could touch Mij in the water as he soared, a fish tucked tight in either armpit, through infinitely intricate aqua-besques; but on land he was much more vulnerable. He met his end being bludgeoned to death by a bloodthirsty truck driver who took advantage of his tame, trusting nature. Writes Author Maxwell, with emotions of pain and rage that the reader cannot help but share: "I became fonder of him than of almost any human being, and to write in the past tense makes me feel desolate ... I hope he was killed quickly, but I wish...
...Renaissance loggias that looked down upon Mediterranean plazas. The Great Hall is severe but rich, and Johnson's elegance manages to shelter whooping cowpunchers and bucking broncos without dampening their bronze spirits. The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art is meant to display the Old West, not to tame...
...short space of 90 days, the valley's farmers supply the U.S. with 80% of its winter lettuce for an annual take of $22 million. Depending on Eastern supply and demand, prices rise and fall like a roller coaster. Says one grower: "It makes the stock market seem tame by comparison." Into this vulnerable area, where any work stoppage can ruin a season, moved the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to organize the valley's lettuce pickers...
Last week it was clear that the new election was as clumsily and corruptly rigged as that in August. With only 50 out of 200 Majlis seats still to be decided, the two tame government parties had captured 122, while "independents" took...