Word: taming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, prewar armchair strategist (The Defence of Britain) who forecast a "very tame" war and believed in the Maginot Line, came out in the London Daily Mail with a tip on how to tell whether war or peace is in sight: if women's fashions favor wide hips and slender waists (as in the Nineties), everything is O.K. "Curves signify contentment," he said; "the vertical line expresses discontent." He found Paris' trend to high hats and short skirts "obviously danger signs...
...heaviest-Gene Lockhart and Andy Devine acting like boys of eight-the fantasy is both unfunny and mawkish. At its best-a flock of ancient socialites helplessly jiving Wagner's Evening Star-it has a weird, wild, death-dance vitality which shows how tame most deliberate surrealism...
...tame Chinese Communist Tung Pi-wu made neither sense nor trouble...
Stearns was made chief of its Operations Analysis Division. For 14 months, he and his technicians, whom G.I.s affectionately dubbed "longhairs," have fought as hard as any pilot to tame the brand-new and radically different Superfortresses. Gradually, sometimes by means mystifying to zealous ground crews, the bugs began to come out. Sample exterminations: ¶ The B-29's big engines were exploding when they caught fire. Dr. William J. Crozier, a Harvard physiologist, suspected that the magnesium-alloy parts blew up when they were doused by the carbon dioxide in the automatic fire extinguishers. Tests proved him right...
...bite, I eat, I am not tame...