Word: pent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pent-up economic pressures of peace had generated political pressures and had brought President Truman up against his first serious difference with Congress (see below). By last week it was clear that the threat of increasing strikes had plunked the issue of a national wage policy down on Harry Truman's desk for urgent decision...
Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? O waste of loss in the hot mazes, lost, Among the bright stars On this most weary unbright cinder, lost ! Remembering speechlessly We seek the great forgotten language, The lost lane-end into heaven, A stone, a leaf, an unfound door...
After 35 years of complete Japanese domination, Koreans were falling over themselves with pent-up political activity. One small boat met the U.S. convoy 20 miles offshore. In it was a Korean who nominated himself for Finance Minister...
...question seemed not to be so much whether industry would collapse if war orders were suddenly canceled, but whether industry could hustle fast enough to meet the pent-up peacetime demand for its wares...
...Roche, Vassar-trained daughter of reactionary Financier John J. Roche, and heir to his minority holdings in the $10,000,000 Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. Behind her lay 17 years of hard social work. Ahead lay her big chance to "fight for tremendous things," i.e., to put her long-pent labor-relations theories to a practical test. Last week the test was close...