Word: pent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zito, as the father, complements Brown precisely, his pent-up guilt and lonleiness spilling over as he rushes through the apartment attempting to bring a vestige of normalcy to a hopelessly uncomfortable situation. The complex role never eludes him, and his grasp of the intricacies of this 53-year old divorced ex-alchoholic is astounding for someone Zito...
...natural text for Hopper's city painting had been written by Melville in the first pages of Moby Dick: "Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries ... But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster-tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone...
...swelling on the rim or the settling of material on the floor of the crater. Inside the crater a lava dome has been forming. It glows red as molten rock roils underneath its hardened crust. The questions: Will it be able to cap the volcano? Or will pent-up gases blast through again...
...tell for sure how soon the mountain will clear itself of these pent-up gases, but U.S.G.S. scientists were saying last week that they would not be surprised if Mount St. Helens continued venting steam, ash and pumice intermittently for another ten or 15 years. The reason, the scientists explained, is that it could take that long for the volcano to complete the internal rebuilding process that will seal it off again...
...activities program for the children, who consequently found less desirable ways of releasing their pent-up energies, such as attacking the staff with chairs...