Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they went farther.*Though they apparently took the trip without noticeable ill effects, scientists plan to study them carefully. Sally and Amy will be mated with Moe, and all three will be mated with other mice. This sort of thing may strike Sally, Amy and Moe as rather tame after all they have been through, but the genetic lessons learned from radiation effects will be valuable for human space travelers...
...been able to use on television; he repeated them to the Symphony Hall audience, as though here were people who could be expected to understand and appreciate comments the television audience would resent. And indeed he had every right to expect it, for the lines were really quite tame, had no particular punch, reflected indeed the thoughts of most run-of-the-mill liberals in the country today. What would have been interesting to hear are the remarks he doubtless makes in small groups, at parties, perhaps to himself, prefaced by a succinct aside: "Well, gang, here's something that...
Mort Sahl says many things which, when read by themselves, (in Time magazine or the CRIMSON) are exceedingly funny. It takes a visit to one of his shows to perceive just how tame Sahl really is--and to realize that his "refreshing young voice" is actually uttering the same banalities that have been floating around us, available at bargain prices for some years...
Alma questions the neighbors about Cliff and at first gets the expected tame responses. But Faye Laird bursts unexpectedly into tears and her dotty old mother insults Alma. Wealthy, widowed Mrs. Barrington clearly knows more than she will say. Strangest of all are the talks with epicene Willard Baker and the peculiar young man who lives with him. As rumors build slowly into facts, Boyd impatiently tries to stop Alma from digging into events that "should have been for gotten long ago." But Alma is a woman who must finish what she starts, and she rips frantically at the curtain...
...debate was tame, but it was still, as both candidates remarked, "useful." Face-to-face confrontation is much more revealing than arguments carried out days and thousands of miles apart; it also disposes of some of the more obvious distortions. For example, although in his day-to-day campaigning Nixon continues to make much of Kennedy's alleged "I would have apologized to Khrushchev" remark, he didn't dare bring it up with Kennedy on the same stage ready to place it in its proper context...