Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operates at a loss. In order to finance the massive fiscal deficits that inevitably result, the government simply orders the Central Bank, which lacks the autonomy to determine the money supply that our Federal Reserve has, to print more money. The inflationary tiger, once unleashed, proves awfully tough to tame...
...written arrestingly about subjects as mundane as oranges and as momentous as high-energy physics and the geologic forces that shape our planet. The three pieces that constitute his 20th book, Atchafalaya, Cooling the Lava and Los Angeles Against the Mountains, deal with the power of determined people to tame water, fire and earth...
Among the most offensive purveyors of brutality to women are slasher films. The movies that inaugurated the trend, including Friday the 13th, Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street, are now tame compared with such opuses as I Spit on Your Grave or Splatter University. The main features: graphic and erotic scenes of female mutilation, rape or murder. Slasher films are widely shown on cable TV, and video shops do a booming business in rentals, especially among eleven-to-15-year-olds. Youngsters watch three or four at a clip at all-night "gross-out" parties. In some fraternity houses...
...collection houses about 1000 works on sexual themes, many risque at the time of their publication but now considered tame. Most of the works, in fact, can be found in the general stacks--books like D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, the poems of Guillaume Apollinaire and even the Kinsey report. The works of the self-styled Marquis de Sade, Honore de Balzac and William S. Burrough's Naked Lunch also take up space on the three rows of shelves that make up the "XR" collection...
...next bill was rather tame, except for a call to Lander, Wyoming. Although the charge was for only 10 cents, none of us could recall dialing there. None of us had even heard of the place. So my roommate Eric decided to call the number and find out whom they knew at Harvard. He tried hard to communicate with them, but unfortunately they spoke only German. None of us did, and the fellow was convinced Eric was a prank caller and hung...