Word: taming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party leadership has been under pressure from the rank-&-file, millions of whom are so new to the party that they still think for themselves. The militant members did not relish the idea of tame Communist participation in a government headed by moderate Georges Bidault. To appease this sentiment, the party's legislative leader Jacques Duclos (who knows better) permitted an all-out Communist effort to prevent the seating of certain Rightist deputies elected by the people...
...know when our peoples will be able to shake hands peacefully, when inept and criminal speeches about a third world war will stop, when we shall again meet, like brothers. . . . I want to believe that this will be soon, that the American people will tame its rabble-rousers, its Fascists, the men who dream of a crusade against Moscow, and with love I tell America: Thanks for the friendly reception and goodbye...
Oops. Near Llao-Llao, Argentina, when the Hotel Tronador missed its tame puma, an attendant sallied into the forest, wondered why the puma he caught acted so annoyed, fainted dead away when he discovered that in his absence the pet had come back...
...paint under their fingernails were planting the weird orchards of modern art. Their shabby Latin Quarter ateliers held the first green fruits of freedom. The sidewalk cafés of Paris rocked and rang with their back-slapping and boasting. Les Fauves, "the wild beasts" and their far-from-tame friends had taken over-Matisse, Braque, Derain, Duchamp, Rouault, and Picasso in command...
...admired her youth and spirit, dressed her in armor to pose for The Watchman. The armor was heavy, and as he was putting the finishing touches on the picture, she crashed to the floor in a faint. Watts' middle-aged lady friends, who treated him as a tame prophet and his studio as a shrine, looked askance at bouncy Ellen, and when Watts' child-wife danced in on a dinner party dressed in pink tights, it was decided that she must go. Her later fame came as a faint shock to Watts...