Word: taming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...misplaced popular passion. McCarthy's followers must now wonder whether they did not fall in naively behind a brooding circuit rider whose attention was fixed all along on some interior stage. McCarthy carried the flag for a considerable popular uprising. Yet his net effect, in retrospect, was to tame and domesticate dissent-to lead it to the Chicago Stock Yards. It belatedly erupted on Mayor Daley's streets, but soon afterward McCarthy vanished...
...somewhat dubious distinction of having their own underground press. Since late last year, no fewer than 272 Communists associated with the paper have been suspended indefinitely from their party jobs. Compared with the mass purges and even executions in Western parties during Stalin's era, that may be tame stuff. But in an age when the party is striving for respectability and hoping for enough votes to earn a place in a governing coalition, the suppression of internal dissent can hardly help...
would anyone become a college president? The job requires a peerless fund raiser, diplomat, orator and cop - a man who can tame romantic radicals, soothe rival professors, work ungodly hours and somehow prove his own scholarly prowess...
...truth is that Americans have done far too little to tame the polluting effects of technology. Even the far reaches of Puget Sound are burdened with pulp-mill discharges. Mining companies spew so many wastes over tiny East Helena, Mont. (pop. 1,490) that the lettuce there contains 120 times the maximum concentrations of lead allowed in food for interstate shipment. Tourists are beginning to leave Appalachia nowadays; poisonous acid from strip mines has seeped into the water table...