Word: vente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times, they make Kamikaze dives at planes and manage to get sucked into propellers. This year, ten planes have been wrecked (no human casualties) by goony-bird action on Midway. With the advent of jet aircraft, the problem has become acute: a goony vacuumed into a forward induction vent could cause a jet to explode...
...likely to be belligerently so. While they may feel the need to cultivate an indifference to certain things (most freshmen apparently never put their "dinks" on, once freshman camp is over), they are less likely to make the art of indifference a study in itself. And while they may vent their scorn verbally on hapless little Ithaca College in the town below them, they will probably not vent it on the world in general or on that portion of it unfortunate enough not to be attending Cornell...
While the conservatives dissipated their strength in quibblings, the Communists threw their 100-vote bloc solidly to Le Troquer. Crowed the Reds in a special victory communique: "By their vote the Communists intend to show their will to fight with the Socialist workers to pre vent ratification of the Bonn agreements and the Treaty of Paris [EDC]." Next day Socialist Le Troquer, a good anti-Communist who is regarded as "more for than against" the EDC, tried to shake off this unilateral attempt to recreate a Popular Front. Said he in his acceptance speech, as the Reds sat silent...
...chorus will sing Christmas carols from different lands, and Handel's "Messiah." "Vent Emmanuel" and "Adeste Fideles" with be sung by the Congregation...
Jack Dowling, TIME'S one-man bureau working out of Singapore, covered 27,000 miles in Southeast Asia this year, collected a bulging passport of 140 pages. It is not unusual, he says, to see smoke pouring through an air vent into the cabin from some source or other. "You notice the steward coming slowly down the aisle distributing candy. He keeps a worried eye on the vent as he comes abreast of it and closes it with the theatrical air of a conspirator. You join the conspiracy in an airplane whisper: 'Do you think the plane...