Word: pent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building up. As their shelves filled again, merchants anxiously gauged the size of the demand anew. Last week M. E. Coyle, new G.M. executive vice president, seemed to be voicing the anxiety of all industry, not merely of auto manufacturers, when he said: "We will catch up with the pent-up demand more quickly than many think...
...hour and 40 minutes after setting out, the 263 pent-up passengers invaded Swift Current. Most women hurried to stores, just missed the first nylon sale. They bought clothes for the family, tidbits for the table. Men & women blew themselves to a restaurant dinner, went to a hockey game, or to a movie. Some men watched a few "ends" of a curling bonspiel, took friends to the washroom for a snort or two (with a sharp lookout for the law), got tight...
This Way Out. The plain fact was that the U.S. was still in danger of inflation-until automobiles and refrigerators, men's suits and shotguns and a thousand other items started pouring out of the factories to satisfy the nation's pent-up buying urge and buying capacity...
Next day Winston Churchill came back to a whirling storm of young Tory complaints. At a meeting of the backbenchers, Churchill slumped in a red leather armchair, listened sourly for 90 minutes to their pent-up criticisms. In schoolmasterly fashion Churchill reminded the younger men that they would better appreciate Parliament tactics when they had a few more years behind them...
Finally, the pent-up British said what they had long been thinking. Americans have been generous with typical big brotherly advice on the Middle East. miserly when it comes to assuming responsibility there. Responsibility means U.S. soldiers, guns, planes and ships. Was the U.S. ready...