Word: pent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...climax Maryland's acidulous Millard F. Tydings stood up. The war was going badly; Senators were mad at each other and at the country; Tydings was sick of the whole business. Out came all his long-pent bitterness. The Government was "an overgrown monstrosity from top to bottom"; strikes should be stopped; Wendell Willkie should get a war job; Dean Landis was the wrong man to head the Office of Civilian Defense; the war debt would be terrific; aid should be sent to General MacArthur; perhaps MacArthur should have been in Singapore in the first place...
...first days of war. It met them with incredulity and outrage, with a quick, harsh, nationwide outburst that swelled like the catalogue of some profane Whitman. It met them with a deepening sense of gravity and a slow, mounting anger. But there were still no words to express emotions pent up in silent people listening to radios, reading papers, taking trains. But the U.S. knew that its first words were not enough...
...loudest and brashest performances of his whole career John L. Lewis this week defied the President of the U.S. All his long, pent-up hatred of Franklin Roosevelt boiling over, John Lewis, like an angry, ranting, old-style tragedian, flatly rejected requests made in the name of his country...
...Olympic Hotel, where elderly Dan Tobin, boss of the teamsters, had already grabbed the best rooms. The Olympic's management had just redecorated its penthouse apartment and named it the Royal Suite, in the hope that the Duke of Windsor, Canada-bound might be the first occupant. The pent house contains seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, reception hall, bar, library, salon, dining room, recreation room, kitchen, service pantry and a terrace sprouting green grass, flowers and shrubs. By the time President Green arrived, Mr. Tobin and his party of eleven teamster officials (four with wives) were bouncing on the beds...
...occasion when a window blind was slamming at Radcliffe. He marched across the room, raised the window, and threw the blind to the ground a story below, remarking "There's more than one way to stop a blind when it slams." But he was not so full of pent-up fury as the quivering young women supposed...