Word: tamed
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...more savage, cruel or capable of breaking a man's spirit than unbridled nature. It is based on violence, with one animal eating another, and its quick violent storms can break a man in a minute. Not everything nature does is right or the best. Man must tame and change it if he is to survive. I think that it's good to remember that, with all our pollution, our life expectancy...
...Theodore Roosevelt received the news of McKinley's death by assassination) and finds its enemies innumerable. Thrifty upriver towns happily send their raw sewage roiling southward toward foul and wicked Manhattan. Tankers leak oil. Corporations discharge incalculable quantities of industrial waste. They always seem able to find a tame scientist to testify before civic bodies that acids, oils, oxides and industrial Dreck of all sorts are only minimally harmful. When that fails, they pay minimal fines and cheerfully go on polluting...
...plus an extra $1,000 in "combat pay" from Ivy League schools because of the savage tactics of dissenters. "Princeton is dedicated to training subhumans," said Capp. "When Ivy League schools get rid of presidents who 'don't know how' to tame the animals they breed, and when they're replaced, as inevitably they must be, by retired Marine brigadier generals, when beasts no longer roam campuses but are locked in cages, then, and not until then, will any sane man accept your invitation...
...earning, friend and foe alike learned to fear his prickly wit and often combative manner. In 1956, when his novel Ten North Frederick won a National Book Award, some critics attacked O'Hara for overemphasizing sex. Now, 14 years later, what once seemed daring seems decidedly tame...
Security and peace of mind, according to an old Brazilian adage, is a strong house, a tame horse and an ugly wife. If the maxim still applies, Rio de Janeiro is a less secure place today. For the former capital of Brazil has become a world capital of the plastic-surgery industry, and ugly wives by the hundreds are being remolded into well-proportioned visions of beauty. The deft use of vanity surgery, as the Brazilians call it, has provided women who flock in from all over the world with new faces, larger (or smaller) bosoms, slimmer hips and even...