Word: vente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With labor leaders, he said, things are different. While fully as aggressive and ambitious as business executives, they are able "to vent their spleen . . . [They] can get out and express their indignation...
...this inauspicious beginning, the official party managed to reach Wellesley Chapel, where it met with a warmer reception. Over 1700 girls swarmed out of the classrooms and sat on the lawns and hung from the trees to see the Pandit. Sensing the importance of the occasion, they gave oral vent to their emotions...
...Steering. These chores took a long time, while the tension grew. At X minus 30 minutes, a cascade of white smoke billowed out of a vent near the nose of the rocket, showing that the tanks were full. "This is a marginal firing," warned an Army major. "If it doesn't go off promptly, run for the blockhouse. If it starts to topple, fall flat." Even the Glenn Martin men were pessimistic about this new-design Viking. "She's like a woman," one remarked. "There's nothing wrong with her . . . we just don't understand...
...commemoration of the vent the picturesque little dairy town is staging a "Milk Day" celebration to be high lighted by the award of a Harvard honorary degree to its best cow. The degree is M. D., Dector of Milk...
...Dcalism were hardly the sort of things Dickstein had had in mind. And when Dies took a merely routine wallop at the German-American Bund, and produced an American Federation of Labor man who testified that Communists were ensconced in both the CIO and the federal government, Dickstein gave vent to some heart-felt criticism...