Word: taming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skinny adventurer had simply decided on a new direction. His next destination was the black bottom of the ocean, and he did not propose to go there in anything as tame as a bathysphere, one of the steel-walled, cable-controlled balls that were used at the time for deep-water research...
...simple. Many suffer from lack of a clearly defined beat, a must for all rock songs. Others show the inability of the composers to use effectively even the small repertoire of chords permitted to rock composers. But most important, the tunes are generally dead, and Gordie Main's rather tame Maniacs little to revive them. Perhaps the trouble is that few electronic distortions were employed...
Government cleaned most of them out as a protection to servicemen, U.S. sin centers have been relatively tame. But vice has prospered in the Mexican border towns, and today it is flourishing as never before. Of the estimated $700 million that visitors spent last year in making tourism Mexico's top industry, all but a couple of million was expended in such sleazy border towns as Mexicali, Matamoros, Ciudad Juárez and-liveliest of them all-Tijuana...
...single privilege or accept a single political gain on the part of the Moslems frustrated every French government effort at amelioration. Perfectly reasonable laws for Moslem "partnership" that might have prevented the war went on the books in Paris, but were never applied in Algeria. A few tame Moslems, known as beni-oui-ouis (yes-men), were allowed to participate in the government, but elections were so frankly rigged that even in France itself, "les elections algeriennes" was a phrase to describe stuffing the ballot box. An old Berber once complained to Ethnologist Germaine Tillion...
...girl students the Harvard campus means a prohibited area to be dreaded. Unescorted girls dare not walk on it. It has been the scene of robberies, molestation and all sorts of bad things." (An informal poll of 'Cliffies revealed they thought that if anything, the Harvard campus is too tame...