Word: pent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since its phase-in process began in 1979, the Core has, in the words of Associate Dean Sidney Verba, released some long pent-up energies in the Harvard community. The Core has attracted many of Harvard's most senior and renowned professors, from Stanley Hoffmann, Ezra Vogel, Emily Vermeule, and Bernard Bailyn to Nobel Prize-winning scientists back to undergraduate and especially freshman teaching. In addition, while many of the Core courses are simply General Education re-treads, often lacking even the discreteness of a change in name, there has been new Faculty collaboration producing what has been called...
Builders are already profiting from the release of pent-up demand. Earnings of U.S. Home Corp., the largest single-family home producer, jumped nearly 60% in the third quarter when compared with a year ago. Ryan Homes Inc., the No. 3 builder, expects sales to grow by at least 25% next year...
...REMEMBER in agonizing detail a crush I had my second year of high school. After class, I would go home and release the pent-up frustration of unrequited love with my stereo. One track in particular spun over and over again on the turntable: "Bargain" by The Who. As the music blasted forth, I would listen to Roger Daltrey and pretend his golden throat was mine. In my dream, the brown-eyed girl would sit entranced while I half sang, half shouted Pete Townshend's lyrics: "I'd pay any price just to win you, Surrender my good life...
Israeli army complicity in the massacre, however, goes beyond the role of naive bystander shocked at the crime. Whether the gunmen were Phalangists or members of Haddad's personal army, the Israeli army commanders' familiarity with the pent-up frustrations of both groups cannot be ignored. After years of training and supplying each group with weapons, nothing but stupidity could have prevented the Israeli army leaders from properly predicting the likelihood of bloody revenge if the opportunity was given them, especially after the recent Gemayel assassination. Surely Begin knows that allies do not always act as their benefactors would like...
...obvious and unoriginal as that, An Officer and a Gentleman still works. The tension and yearnings pent up inside of aspiring Navy pilot Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) are vivid and believable. You may think you're too sophisticated for an underdog-gets-crewcut-and-makes-good saga, but wait until Mayo is face down in the mud, "doin' 50" for that bastard Sergeant Foley. You'll suddenly find you own tightly clenched fist pounding the arm rest with every rep. "Yes SIR! I'd LIKE to do some more push...