Word: tamed
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Cynics say fans come just to see the crashes, but the race there last weekend indicated that as accidents go, they are pretty tame. A motocross crash has none of the explosive finality of an Indy car slamming into the wall at 200 mph. A rider loses control in a jump, hits the ground off balance, falls off his bike, picks it up and starts going again. Crashes serve much more as opportunities for passing than for broken legs. One of the most exciting parts of Saturday's action was in the second-to-last race, when leader Scott Burnsworth...
...featured speaker is Edward Kennedy, who may place Mondale's name in nomination. The Massachusetts Senator is an inconsistent orator, but he can soar when the spirit moves him. Indeed, one of Mondale's minor problems is that his own acceptance speech Thursday night might sound a bit tame after the performances of Cuomo, Jackson and Kennedy. Mondale may ask a woman to introduce him, especially if he has chosen a male running mate and needs a show of solidarity from the women who will constitute slightly fewer than half of all the convention delegates...
...media yelping seemed pretty tame, at times, compared with the back biting among some Jackson advisers. One even suggested last week that it was Paterfamilias Joe Jackson's "black-music-business voodoo" that made a large advance from the promoter such a stumbling block and could even have kept his sons from earning still more on box-office percentages. Says the source: "Joe's philosophy is, 'My boys are the biggest, and they get their money up front.' " As a result of all this, in two of the first three cities on the tour, the money...
...importance, the campaign has been strangely tame so far, with both men drawing sparse crowds and tepid applause. When Shamir arrived at a Tel Aviv suburb for a rally, he discovered that local party officials had failed to spread the word. The Prime Minister kept a fixed smile, but later he snapped at the organizers, "You should have told me!" Shamir had better luck at a branch of Bank Leumi in Givatayim, where several dozen customers clustered around him. "Tell your clientele," he said to the bank's manager, "that they should not worry about their savings. We will secure...
...this quarrel than to the Soviet one. Soviet protestations of pique or even fury cannot be taken at face value any more than expressions of good will and friendship. The bear is a born actor: he growls to frighten his foes so that they will back off, and plays tame so that they will draw nearer to be hugged (sometimes to the point of suffocation) or bitten...