Word: pent-up
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...silent while the youthful crusaders monopolized front pages with a revision of U. S. history which made those elders out to have been deplorable bunglers, duped by propaganda or impelled by greed. But when ardent young Senator Nye called the Wartime President of the U. S. a liar, the pent-up wrath of Woodrow Wilson's onetime associates burst forth in dancing fury...
...caused him to be removed to Washington's Naval Hospital. Last week the approaching Presidential campaign brought Invalid Howe back briefly into the news when an Associated Pressman went to his hospital bed, interviewed him for the first time since he fell ill. Perched on an elbow, his pent-up thoughts tumbling out in a staccato jumble, the gnarled, gnome-like little oldster crackled...
...Berlin unconfirmed rumor had the Realmleader cruising among Norwegian fjords, but he escaped the notice of Norwegians. One official was supposed to have visited him in Munich. With his usual intuition Adolf Hitler had quietly effaced himself while the more hard-boiled and intractable of his subordinates eased their pent-up inhibitions last week. After they are uninhibited, the Realmleader always finds them as a group much easier to lead, punishes ruthlessly a few who went too far, emerges blameless in many eyes because, during the excesses, he was absent...
...hours before the President went on the air, the National Association of Manufacturers, convening in Washington, issued a pronunciamento declaring that the threat of New Deal reform measures was all that blocked the pent-up surge of recovery. With a last-minute addition to his speech, President Roosevelt at once delivered a bold reply, outlined his "must" program of legislation, asked the electorate to help him prod Congress to action. Items...
...pair of spaniel brown eyes and a personality so winning that he seems able to move either mountains or human hearts with equal ease." He has again & again felt his passion for uncompromising cinema realism thwarted by cautious superiors. As a safety valve with which to blow off the pent-up, perilous stuff, he wrote Paprika. In it he "has given his passion for realism a free rein. Nobody has intervened.'' Many a reader will be grinningly grateful...