Word: vente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Spaak visited Harvard last spring, he claimed that Great Britain "no vent pas" to take part in such a constitutional assembly...
...Burden of Morality. When it was Warren Austin's turn, he read a few sentences from his typewritten, heavily corrected text, then suddenly looked up and, off the cuff, tore into the "Soviet bloc who cannot open their mouths in this committee without giving vent to hatred of all independent countries." After he calmed down, Austin sharply and simply defined the issue before...
...argued: "One may reasonably think it wiser in the long run to let an unhappy, bitter outcast vent his venom before any crowds he can muster . . . One may trust that his patent impotence will be a foil to anything he may propose. Indeed, it is a measure of the confidence of a society in its own stability that it suffers such fustian to go unchecked. [But] here we are faced with something very different"-i.e., the American Communists, who secretly conspire, conceal their membership, take orders from abroad...
Explained the Tribune's editors to Reader O'Toole and other disappointed Capp fans: the omitted strips "constituted a personal attack upon another prominent cartoonist. The Tribune does not allow its reporters, editors or columnists to vent personal malice . . . and it believes the same rule ought to apply to comic-strip artists...
...chairman said that McCarthy's accusations of innocent people will lead to the stifling of diversities of opinions. At this time, Straight declared, it is important that "our minds be unfettered by fear," and that we give vent to a "clash of ideas." Straight added that we must have "courage to be unafraid of this (McCarthy's) kind of smear...