Word: vent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poet with the instincts of a grand seigneur" as Besterman puts it, Voltaire set out none too scrupulously to guarantee himself financial security. Before his 24th birthday, he had become an instant success with his first and most famous play, Oedipe, in which he used Greek tragedy to give vent to his lifelong hatred of absolute monarchy. A special lottery, which he manipulated to his advantage, was his first financial killing...
...students combined to create the most violent upheaval that France has endured in two decades. The very existence of the Fifth Republic was threatened as unions called crippling strikes and students took to the barricades. Now that most stable element of French society-the small businessman-is beginning to vent his violent discontent. In recent weeks, shopkeepers have paraded through Paris, burned tax forms in Lyon, fought police in Morlaix. In Nice, they refused to pay increased gas and electricity rates. Capitalizing on the discontent, the Communist daily L'Humanite has sided with the petit bourgeois tradesman against...
...supervisor refers him to a notice on the bulletin board. The jock and I go out to read the notice. It is from Master Heimert, apologizing for the inconvenience, asking crowdies not to vent their wrath on the House secretary, and saying. "We have been told that Mather House will be completed by December, and that [mysteriously] other provisions may be made for these men soon...
Monsanto has studied every vent in its four huge plants in the area, evaluating every chemical process, and monitoring the effectiveness of "scrubbers," "eliminators" and other controls. "What the company is doing is very complex and very expensive," says Charles Copley, Commissioner of the St. Louis air pollution control board...
...seemed to try to suppress their anxieties, sometimes by escapist "thinking about how good the next assignment would be." By contrast, several "unhappy and emotionally delicate" wives developed independent activities and a new sense of self-fulfillment in their spouses' absence. Frequently they were able to give healthy vent to their anger at the military by reducing their involvement with military life and becoming more active in social and community affairs...