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...practice he had kept telling his all-too-tame Wildcats that they had to hate the guy across the line from them. Only a few days before, an eager freshman had driven a first-string tackle out of a play. When the big varsity man picked himself up, smiled and said, "Nice block," Coach Voigts got mad. "When the kid dumped you," he said, "you should have snarled." On Saturday against Minnesota, just when things looked blackest, the Wildcats began to snarl...
...United Nations decided that they had seen enough of Franco's peculiar brand of savagery. His government, they said, was the essence of German and Italian fascism and the U.N. passed a resolution advising its members to withdraw their diplomatic missions. The object of this was either to tame Franco or bounce him out of Spain. It failed miserably. Great Britain, looking ahead to the day when Gibraltar would be vulnerable, signed a trade agreement with the dictator, and the United States was afraid that Spain would be consumed by Civil War if Franco left the scene. With this tacit...
...snakes, 64-year-old Grace Wiley loved the cobras best. They were the most intelligent, she thought, and the most easily tamed. "It's just that people are afraid to try to tame them. They know that you can only fail once with a king cobra...
...stick his nose into Nicaragua?" Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, who is proud of his English, paused abruptly and jabbed a fat finger into the stuffed Guatemalan quetzal that hung by his desk. "The quetzal-symbol of liberty or death to the Guatemalans," he snickered. "There are lots of tame ones in the Bronx...
...Tame Deer. It was tame deer that in spired Kurt Hahn to be a teacher. A psychologist might have classified the deer browsing listlessly in the park at Oxford's Magdalen College, as well adjusted. But to Hahn, they seemed "contentedly unfit,' lacking ambition even to jump the fence. Were most schools producing tame deer...