Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They descended upon Princeton, N.J., hoping to tame the local beasts. But the Harvard golf team encountered fierce competition from both the Tigers and rival Dartmouth, and wound up in third place in last weekend's Ivy League Championships...
They growled and clawed more than a little bit at the beginning. A few of them, most notably head coach Ted Garber, were still snapping and snarling right down to the end. But for the most part the University of New Hampshire Wildcats proved pretty easy to tame...
...hypnotism: "You keep rollin' around my head/like a magnum that repeats." As the song fades, the drummer pummels an incessant jungle-cum-Bo Diddley beat, the guitars chime in, and then suddenly the musical avalance cascades out of hearing. This portends of things to come. The first side is tame, love-centered pop; this closing hints of the underlying energy to surface later...
...letters reveal how much time Hemingway was left alone with his writing. It was the one thing that he could not charm, intimidate, tame with fists, gun or gaff. Early comments on the subject jumble jazz-age slang with such gee whizzisms as "Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers" and "Pound thinks I'm a swell poet." The mature craftsman finds that he has to write to be happy, that his art is his disease, his vice and obsession...
...shhh tame, mon frairi!" (passionate embrace...