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Word: tamers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...willing to bet on it, and therefore to welcome the growing West German power. "What disturbs us is to have a power vacuum in Western Europe," says Italian Author Luigi Barzini, one of the Continent's shrewdest pundits. "It's as if this were a circus without a lion tamer. That is dangerous. So, by and large, we would not be terribly disturbed if the tamer were West Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leading from Strength | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...What have the rebels captured so far? One zoo, not our best zoo, and a cemetery. The rebels have entered the cages of the tamer animals and are playing with them, gently...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Not-So-Great Days | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

...have conveyed more eloquently the task of actually sitting down and putting words on paper: "Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain." And few have expressed more simply the pleasures of that word tamer. "Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. This is the great advantage they possess, which more than makes up for the little they usually earn." The words may jump and snarl, snap and bite when Brenan sits down at his own desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Tamer | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...Great Wall. He won, then stood next to a group of bemused Chinese sailors to have his picture taken. "Do you know you are posing with an imperialist?" he joked. Not so, said the well-coached sailors. "We are having a photograph taken with the polar-bear tamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Making Friends in Peking | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...Lion Tamer...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Fencers Silence Lions' Roar, Win 15-12 as Vastola Stars | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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