Word: tamer
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...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...
...third act which I considered the high-point of the evening. Here the authoress did her impressions of four characters immortalized in the posters of Toulouse Lautree, "La Goulue," "A Lion Tamer," "Deaf Bertha," and the magnificent Yvette Gilbert. While these impressions lacked the humorous twists of the earlier ones, they seemed to be fuller, more human. The women here were dressed exactly as they appear in the famous posters, and it would be difficult if not impossible for the uninformed observer to tell that they were being played by the same person...
When Clinton Truman Duffy became warden back in 1940, nobody expected that the prison would really change-even though he got the job because of public revulsion at the prison's sadism and corruption. San Quentin seemed to need a lion tamer, and Duffy was a mild, grey-haired little man who favored gold-rimmed spectacles and always wore a rosebud in his lapel. He was appointed temporarily, for only 30 days, while the governor looked for a more impressive crusader...