Word: pent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news were themselves news, and many a correspondent felt personal as well as professional excitement. At least five who entered the city with the conquering troops had witnessed American defeat in the Philippines three years ago. And from Japanese prison camps came eleven correspondents, emaciated and ailing, with the pent-up knowledge of three years' hell to report. Among them: ¶ The U.P.'s Franz Weissblatt, 46, only U.S. correspondent captured in battle by the Japanese. For three years Weissblatt, shut up in Bilibid Prison, was only four blocks from his wife, in Santo Tomas internment camp...
...night last month some 40 people gathered in the large, old-fashioned pent house apartment of Mrs. Hugh Bullock in Manhattan for the most trying occasion in the literary life - a poetry reading. They were publishers, editors, critics, poets, a few patrons of poetry. They heard the first formal reading of the first poem in many years by Russell Wheeler Daven port, 45, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, best known as the close associate of the late Wendell Willkie in the Presidential campaign of 1940. Davenport began...
...nonsmoker, he works off his pent-up energy in little restless gestures and movements, like a race horse...
This week the pent-up bolt of Allied power struck. A thunderous preparation by 1,000 bombing planes shook the earth for miles around a new sector northeast of Aachen. Behind the bombardment - and a rolling barrage by 10-inch guns - the battle-seasoned U.S. First hurdled a small river, moved forward toward Cologne. The Germans backed stubbornly, foot by foot, before them...
...flood of pent-up Chinese criticism loosed by the recent relaxation of Government censorship, one newspaper and its editor have been outstanding. The newspaper is China's leading independent, Chungking's Ta Rung Pao. Its brilliant, self-educated editor is slight, bespectacled Wang Yun-sheng. Recent excerpts from his hard-hitting editorials...