Word: pent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even so, pent-up public enthusiasm for a new American musical of any kind was so great that despite bad word of mouth, some 90,000 customers came during previews, most paying the full price of $50. Says Rubin: "We made a profit during previews." The show built up advance sales as high as $10 million; they still stood at more than $3 million after opening. The day after the barrage of punishing reviews appeared, the box office sold almost $40,000 worth of tickets...
...abstained. Next came Uruguay, with a decisive si. Soon there was a oui and a da, then the Arabic assent na'am. As the U.N.'s six official languages rang out, a chuckle began to rumble through the chamber. The exhausted delegates seemed to have found a release for pent-up tension in the very sounds they were hearing. By the time China offered the Mandarin affirmative zan cheng, the chuckles had widened into open laughter...
...discussed. She conceived it as a sequel to Illness As Metaphor, the 1978 work that emerged from her experience with breast cancer, a mastectomy and years of chemotherapy. The earlier book, by tracing myths that had attached themselves to tuberculosis and cancer, brilliantly discredited notions -- like that of the pent-up, "cancer-prone" personality -- that add senseless guilt and shame to the burdens patients already carry. "But it's much more common now for people to be candid about cancer," she says "because there's a new disease to hang all your fantasies and phobias on -- AIDS...
...pent-up frustration let loose," McElreavy said...
...capital environs) legislation. By the time Congress adjourns in mid-October, it will have compiled a record in passing landmark activist legislation exceeded in recent years only by the Great Society 89th Congress of 1965 and 1966. Says House Speaker Jim Wright by way of explanation: "There were pent-up needs too long deferred." Adds Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "We were too long in the desert. It seemed like 40 years...