Word: taming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three days 90% of the State's prorated wells had ceased to flow. Oil operators offered no resistance to the Murray order. Not a single shot was fired. So tame was the oil war that two young guardsmen were caught dozing under a Sinclair derrick. But despite martial law, economic law held its ground and the price of Oklahoma oil did not rise above...
Governors' conferences are, by tradition, made as dull and tame as possible by a ban on all "controversial subjects...
Little Vivian Leichner, 6, wandered down a corridor in Cincinnati's Whittier School one afternoon last week and into a Natural History classroom where a William Harwood "of Leland Stanford University," guest lecturer, was showing children how tame a woman trainer had made two bears and a 200-lb. cub lioness. Terrified, Vivian Leichner turned...
...Tame and intelligent, Arthur became the playmate of soldiers and of schoolchildren from the surrounding countryside. Only with his subject pigeons was he harsh, and that defect last week proved fatal...
...Hull speech was too tame, too polite a protest for Arkansas' barrel-chested, full-blooded Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson. His face as red as his necktie, he leaped to the platform, began an address of his own. He waved his arms, shook his fists at Chairman Raskob. He thundered and bellowed. He worked himself up into a passion of dissent. Cried...