Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychological. I shudder to think of the number of rapes that probably occur on this very campus every day, to think of the numberless forced into submission, thereby making "actual," "overt," "illegal" rape by their partners unnecessary. Harvard males are not usually driven to the streets to find outlet for their agressive desires; they have outlets for dominance, whether in sexual intercourse itself or in a future as a successful professional person, with the option of a busing the power attached to that status...
...after another. [But] those who call for the President's resignation on the ground that he has lost their confidence risk poisoning the wells of politics for years to come. The men who wrote our Constitution were fully aware how waves of emotionalism, if given an easy electoral outlet, could reduce any political system to anarchy. To ask the President now to resign, and thus relieve the Congress of its clear congressional duty, amounts to a declaration of incompetence on the part of the Congress...
...reconstruction and the Spanish-American War were years of depression. Workers employed in railroad construction were being laid off. With the completion of the national railroad system and the industrialization of agriculture, both heavy industrialists and large commercial farmers were looking anxiously for markets. The traditional outlet of westward expansion appeared closed...
Eastern capitalists had looked to China as a possible overseas outlet for profitable investment and commodities since the 1840s. Under Secretary of State William H. Seward, the United States purchased Alaska and annexed the Midway Islands as stepping stones to Asia...
...into the classroom. They sharpen their wits by playing a classroom version of the television game show Jeopardy. Field trips have included a canoe trip to learn firsthand how pollutants poison a river. A recent guest lecturer gave a frank talk on how to run a quick-fry chicken outlet...