Word: outletting
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...school could serve as a placement outlet for students who now are scattered among a bewildering array of agencies. Monro said that it might also serve as a vital contact for Nigerian students who wish to study at the University. If the plan works out, he added, the "John Harvard School" might open its doors...
...herself-the Scythians adored decoration and adornment, and from this came their one important legacy. Even their arrows, though likely to be lost after one shot, bore intricate designs. No great warrior's belt or horse's harness lacked gold plaques. Being nomads, the Scythians found their outlet not in statues or cities but in things that could be worn. Whatever talent might have poured into architecture or grand statuary went into the molding of sculptures of gold...
...unites all their fates. A sentient lover (Tadeusz Janczar) pretends "we're walking in a dark and fragrant wood," but his blonde, tough-minded mistress (Teresa Izewska) shatters the illusion tersely: "We're walking in [obscenity]." The lovers' goal is to reach the sewer's outlet in the Vistula; when they do, a grid of iron bars blocks them. Still the hero, who has lost none of his heart-rending hope, can say: "Daisy, the sun is shining...
...long-lived tradition of anticlericalism in southern France, which recruited the Huguenots in the 16th century and fueled Communism in the 20th, is finding a new outlet in a spreading bush fire of enthusiasm for the vanished sect whose 750-year-old lost cause against the church gave anticlericalism its biggest beachhead in France. Some 30 books have been published during the last 15 years about their beliefs and practices and their slaughterous persecution-most of them highly favorable to the heretics and critical of the church. Several plays have been written about them, and literary reviews have published long...
...joining neighboring and more prosperous Senegal in the Mali Federation. But eight months ago, the Senegalese, fearful of Sudanese domination, seceded from the federation; they also refused the Sudanese (who stubbornly clung to the name Mali) further access to Senegal's great, modern port of Dakar. With no outlet to the sea and nothing to sell on world markets save peanuts, kapok and a little rice and dried fish, Mali's Premier Mobido Keita turned to the increasingly popular game of playing West against East...