Word: vented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dougie can lift us up with the propane burner or let the hot air escape through a vent to ease us down, but our horizontal movement is entirely dependent upon the vagaries of Aeolus. "That is part of ballooning's magic," says Dougie. "You never know what your destination will be. Your fate is in the winds...
Nixon was certainly a worthy target on which to vent such feelings, and while it is highly unusual to write history in terms of personal rage, Mee somehow seems to capture an underlying anger that conventional histories of the Watergate era miss. He relates a mood with an effectiveness that no objective account could offer, but with an air of authority that a straight piece of fiction or biography would not provide. It is Mee's style that makes the book a cohesive and meaningful treatment of "the wounds that Watergate inflicted on the American psyche" (as the blurb...
...major problem with the theory that being gay is like being black is that most psychologists believe homosexuality is conditioned, not congenital. The prominence of gay "role models" like public school teachers could arguably influence youth to experiment with homosexual practices or give vent to repressed gay tendencies...
...Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent. It is plain and simple reduction of feeling. If you can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else, either. And the world is full of pain. Also joy, evil. Goodness. Horror and love. You name it, it's there. Sealing yourself off is just going through the motions...
BEAUJOLAIS. These light, fruity, relatively inexpensive wines from southern Burgundy will be superb. Such favorites as Moulin-á-Vent, Brouilly and Fleurie may rival some of the Burgundies in three years, though they will be drinkable as early as next spring. The Chardonnay whites from the Mâcon district, such as Pouilly-Fuissé, are very fruity, high in alcohol and richly flavored. Prices can be expected to jump...