Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fled to the South Seas partly to escape his increasing need for her, but he ended his voyage by meeting her in Paris. This time she was the one who fled, back to Washington, pursued by an eloquently inarticulate letter. "I am not old enough to be a tame cat; you are too old to accept me in any other character ...," Adams wrote. "One may be innocent as the angels, yet as unhappy as the wicked; and I, who would lie down and die rather than give you a day's pain, am going to pain you the more...
...Harvard men's basketball team proved last night that its best offense is an aggressive defense, brandishing a rugged man-to-man and a solid zone to tame Columbia, 66-62, before 1150 at Briggs Athletic Center...
...Aquacade's" five-member chorus performs several gently satirical numbers that, unfortunately, are not nearly as witty and creative as the accompanying costumes of giant bananas, pineapples and starfish. As tongue-in-cheek sequences, they're too tame and subdued to make their point, if intended seriously, they're too silly...
...other statistics made clear the high cost the nation has incurred to tame inflation. Total national production of goods and services, adjusted for inflation, dropped an unexpectedly sharp 2.5% in last year's final quarter. For all of 1982, real G.N.P. fell 1.8%, its worst tumble since 1946. U.S. mines and factories in December ran at only 67.3% of capacity, the lowest figure on record since these statistics were first compiled...
...prosperity with a nickel-a-gallon gasoline tax was stalled by a renegade filibuster. Ronald Reagan and his congressional critics were still at swords' points over the MX missile, and no one dared even mention Social Security, a beast that some had foolishly dreamed the special session would tame...