Word: pent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Them Watch." All at once his pent-up rages and frustrations seemed to burst out. Like a banty rooster, Quadros flew at the graft-feathered machine of São Paulo's Governor Adhemar de Barros. Quadros raced around the city listening to citizens' protests and holding rallies, a rumpled, stubble-chinned reformer who sucked oranges on the platform and waved a caged...
...been said that Radcliffe moulds masculine women. It has also been said that Radcliffe encourages dialectical dates and pent-up prudes. As a matter of fact, a lot of things have been said about Radcliffe...
...film smells of the theater, though less than most photographed plays. Most of the action takes place in one small room, but that pent-up, gotta-get-outa-here feeling is essential to the story. Regrettably, the actors-all the principals have been held over from the Broadway production-often seem to be shouting past the spectator, as though still playing from habit to the back row, balcony. Only Actress Dee, as the wife, projects her existence without hollering her head off. Actress Sands, as the sister, has a wonderful tomboy charm and most of the funny lines...
...their parents. The Portuguese might well ask: Is this the people the U.S. prefers to them? It was not that simple, of course, nor was the U.S. vote any condonation of the savage murders that have a way of exploding uncontrollably in Africa if passions are too long pent...
Eighteen months have passed since Red Chinese troops occupied 12,000 square miles of northern Indian soil. The troops are still there. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been heard to complain, but has done little else. Last week, as the Indian Parliament's new session got under way, pent-up tempers exploded. "Have we grown so soft?" demanded Asoka Mehta, leader of the Praja Socialist Party. "Surely the brave soldiers of India have never said they would not march." Cries of "cold feet" rang out, and one M.P. demanded that Nehru "apologize" to the nation...