Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find it amusing to think that Boston's Appleton Street, referred to in your story "Trying to Tame the Automobile [Oct. 12] can be subdued by speeds of 5 to 10 m.p.h. and that drivers will mind their manners. Boston drivers have been out of control for years. They are a national disgrace, and no measure short of mass arrest will ever make Appleton or any other Boston street safe...
...faced the University of Connecticut and lost, 4-2, for its first defeat of the season. Now the Princeton Tigers had arrived in town with their number-four national ranking, and the booters were being asked to pick themselves up by their bootstraps, step into center ring and tame the big cats from New Jersey...
Rodger said the Massachusetts SPCA has objected to the Primate Center's use of restraining "chairs" in the course of research. Monkeys at the center are less tame than dogs used in research, he said, because often they come to the center as wild adults, making it necessary to sedate them before experimentation and then to immobilize them in a chair...
...effort to sort out the two, tame automobiles in residential areas and restore city streets as a place where children can play, old folks can sit, joggers can jog and friends and lovers can meet, began in 1976 in Delft, Holland. "We were trying to stop child murder," says Dutch City Planner Thijs de Jong...
...ride seemed a more conventional roller coaster with a hill, a turn, a rise, a dip, none of which looked terribly menacing. But as the line snaked its way around a plaster mountain placed there for atmospheric effect, "The Demon's" devilish aspects revealed themselves. I had seen the tame initial drop; I had not seen the loop that towered over the fake mountain. My first inclination was to leave the line, but embarrassment is a powerful force. I stayed put. A few minutes later I saw the next terror: another loop, this one even higher than the first; then...