Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the economy and the world situation are even worse than he thought. Accordingly, there is no longer any cavalier talk around Democratic headquarters about 'the first 100 days.' Nobody is promising a flood of legislation that will make Franklin Roosevelt's first 100 days look tame...
...chief risk in using manatees is that they are locally considered very good eating and so are apt to be surreptitiously turned into steaks and chops. Allsopp hopes to get strict legislation to protect both wild and tame manatees from this fate. But his chief remaining problem is how to multiply his gentle servants, who, left to their own devices, seem to be both slow and unenthusiastic in reproduction...
Payoff on Gamble. The ad was no joke to its author, James Bryan Choate, 35, a lanky Texan, or to the Brazilian territory of Rondonia (pop. 65,000) where he lives. For Choate, it began the payoff of a $125,000 gamble to tame 500,000 acres of jungle. To Rondonia it signalled the start of local industry, a supply of jobs as well as caninha. The territorial government willingly blessed the venture with a five-year tax grace...
...years following that plea by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority became the swirling center of a great national controversy. Castigated by its enemies as a socialistic octopus, defended by its friends as an amiable and beneficent giant, the TVA wielded the power of government to tame the floods of the Tennessee River and revitalize its vast and poverty-stricken valley, stretching over 80,000 square miles into seven states. This week the TVA, now accepted as a permanent part of the U.S. scene by friend and foe alike, showed the initiative of a private enterprise...
German-born Schoolmaster Kurt Hahn thought out his concept of a school while a student at Oxford's Magdalen College, where he watched tame deer browsing .spiritlessly in the park and saw an analogy with tame schoolboys. Turning to Plato's Republic for guidance, Hahn designed a stern academy to "molest" the overly contented. His "seven laws": 1) give children opportunities for selfdiscovery; 2) make them meet with triumph and defeat; 3) give them the opportunity for self-effacement in a common cause; 4) provide periods of silence; 5) train the imagination; 6) make games important...