Word: vente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George VI, a man who had the feel of the quarterdeck, would not let the crowd vent its bitterness on the exiled David. They had parted as brothers: "D & I said goodbye, kissed, parted as freemasons & he bowed to me as his King," his diary noted, and he was not going to see him deprived of all honor in his former kingdom. Sir John Reith of the BBC wanted to introduce David in his farewell speech as "Mr. Edward Windsor." On King George's insistence, he became instead His Royal Highness Prince Edward...
...seconds tightened as hundreds of eyes were fixed on the clock. Seven-fifteen (a.m.) . . . T minus 60 seconds ... 55 ... 50 ... 45 ... Said Walsh: "Helium disconnect has dropped; lox vent has closed." Then T minus one. Snapped Walsh: "Mark!" From the blockhouse came the word: "Ignition...
...boygan-"the greatest little town in the world"-may well be the most hate-ridden community in the U.S. Passing on the street, men who used to be coworkers, neighbors and friends now glare at each other in deep-frozen enmity. At night, normally law-abiding citizens vent their gnawing hatred against their enemies in acts of vandalism: slashing automobile tires, scattering nails in driveways, hurling glass jars filled with paint through house windows. Sheboygan's hate reaches even to the children: an everyday sight is a tight-lipped child followed by other children shrilly jeering, ''Your...
...Cervi was puzzled," wrote Cervi. "Was the mysterious sender offering $1,000 as a perverse bribe, a gift of gratitude, prelude to a trap to be sprung later or giving vent to honest outrage?" In a P.S. to the sender, Editor Cervi suggested: "If this is a trick, why don't you try us out on a $100,000 note...
While the Yugoslavs seemed reluctant to discuss politics with their fellow countrymen, Lorenz found that many of them were anxious to talk politics with Americans as a vent for pent-up feelings...