Word: tamer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought down in 93-car trains which have to be eased cautiously down a 3% grade for nine miles under smoking brakes. Against the chance that the brakes might fail, special sidetracks were built to switch any runaways to an upgrade. Once off the hill and on a tamer grade, the 91-mile railroad winds through a palm-tufted savannah, a rocky badlands where flash floods can fill dusty ravines with ten feet of water in a few minutes, and finally a sandy semidesert to the Caroni river...
...circus handyman in love with her are merely displaced Hollywood juveniles. Gloria Grahame as the circus manager's sultry young wife and Adolphe Menjou as a secret-police officer carry more conviction, but the best performances are bits, e.g., Alex D'Arcy as a fatuously handsome lion tamer, Hansi as a circus dwarf, Dorothea Wieck as an equestrienne...
...this year things are tamer. There was a brief exchange over civil rights, and a challenge on McCarthyism, but none of the violent personal attacks of the past...
...week's end, like a lion tamer who disdains whip, chair and pistol, Bull Boatner entered one of the new pens and walked alone, unarmed and unmolested, among the prisoners. He had cowed the unruly Communist, and had done much to restore U.S. prestige lost by previous pampering and bungling...
...seniors, according to a Waban custom, must roll their hoops over a course a quarter of a mile long; the winner being the one most likely to marry first. Though somewhat tamer than the Indian ritual, the Wellesley version is very similar...