Word: pent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...various sophomore-freshman riots Kopliner and his men stand by prepared for action. "We let them go at it till it gets rough, and we watch for injuries," Kopliner says, "they have to release their pent-up energy somehow." If the fight occurs in a room, the proctors are on it immediately...
...Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift.* Otherwise Vanbrugh wrote with small sense of purpose and merely to entertain. The play tells two barely contiguous stories: one-the frilly, mannered tale of Loveless' backsliding-is pure Restoration bawdry; the other-the lusty courtship of a panting, pent-up hoyden-is timeless low comedy. Morally, also, the play faces two ways. It seems utterly callous where Loveless sins with his wife's cousin and house guest; it seems all but Victorian when Loveless' wife not only resists seduction but reduces her would-be seducer to shame...
...Active treatment, designed to cure patients and return them to a place in society, was substituted for passive, hopeless "patient care." That was how Mrs. X met Dr. James M. Mott Jr. Young (29), redheaded Psychiatrist Mott found her amazingly spry for a woman of 72 who had been pent up for 17 years. She had enough energy to badger him unmercifully with her delusions. But soon it appeared that his regular visits gave her a sense of security. Dr. Mott was responsible for 367 patients (with 61 attendants, but no nurses, no case workers). He could spare...
...build another 10,000 Levittown houses. But whether the Levitts, or all of the other builders, will build as many houses as they plan depends on how long the housing shortage-and the housing boom-lasts. Last week the Department of Commerce estimated that about two-thirds of the pent-up housing demand has already been filled. However, said the department, the "remaining backlog is still large and appears sufficient to warrant construction close to the recent yearly rates for [another] three years...
...Over there" was the grey, stone-walled New York Stock Exchange. Inside, on the crowded trading floor, there was no gloom, only pent-up excitement. The huge cavern buzzed with talk of General Motors' new five-year contract with the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The pact had been announced the day before, after the market closed, and traders now wondered how this testimonial to continued prosperity would affect the market...