Word: vent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impudent and intrusive," invaded two untouched news areas-finance and society-exposing the market swindles of the moneyed and reporting with little respect the social pretensions of their wives. On dull days, he twitted blue noses; one editorial guffaw at unmentionability taunted : "Petticoats-petticoats-petticoats; there, you fastidious fools, vent your mawkishness on that." Old Bennett was horsewhipped with a frequency startling even for a time when this was a customary way for readers to suggest disapproval. He showed little resentment of the whippings and reported them fully...
...their attempt, Morris and the Anglins took infinite pains. They stole tablespoons from the mess hall, removed the metal grills from the air vents in their cell walls, and night after night, between the guards' hourly bed checks, gouged the crumbly plaster and concrete from the vent. During the days, they kept the holes covered with cardboard grills that they had painted to resemble the original metal. They carefully collected the powdered concrete and plaster that they chipped away and each day scattered it during their outdoor exercise period...
...wall were only 10 in. by 14 in., and though the shoulders of the three men were as broad as 17 in., they pushed through into a little-used utility corridor behind the cell wall. From there, they climbed up a 30-ft. pipe to an air-conditioning vent, pried it loose and squeezed through to the roof. By now they were in full view of the guardpost at the No. 1 tower at the northern end of the prison compound...
Major's 45-man staff has an eagle eye for cost-cutting detail, designs houses so that no odd-length beams have to be sawed and two bathrooms can be linked to one $65 vent. Explains a company executive: "If you're talking about 1,000 units, a $50 bill on every house becomes quite a piece of change.'' Like many another innovator, Cluff Major stumbled onto tractitioning. Raised in Thatcher, Ariz., he planned to be an architect, but when his family could not afford to send him to college, he settled for the next best...
Bond also seems to have the full range of modern technological fun and games at his fingertips-from automobiles (which fascinate him) to aqualungs. He talks knowledgeably about perfume (though he admits the gaffe of once attributing Vent Vert to Dior instead of Balmain). He is a whiz at games; his adventures include several elaborately described games at which Bond wins five-figure stakes from the villain-usually by out-cheating...