Word: vented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winter wardrobe, there will be none of the plaids, brightly striped shirts and rainbow-hued ties that Ford favors. Instead he will be urged to choose solid shades or conservative stripes in his suits and shirts, quietly striped or solid-color ties, and jackets with a conventional single vent. Rosenthal's success in the remaking of a President is far from assured. According to Betty Ford, her roommate never throws anything out. Recently, when White House Photographer David Kennerly kidded him for wearing a jacket with lapels wide enough to take wing, a defensive President responded, "What...
Another reason that the whole thing is so like the death of a loved one is that there's nowhere to vent your frustration and rage, no one to ask why, no one to blame. If this were 1950, the pitcher who smashed his hand with a fastball might be blamed. After all, Vernon Ruhle looks like he'd be out castrating beef cattle for fun if he wasn't a relief pitcher for the Tigers. But the days of beanball wars are over: even the designated hitter rule, which theoretically lets pitchers zap people with impunity (they themselves...
...many visits to Portugal in the past year, Scott has had only one disagreeable incident: his suitcase was delivered from his plane to the Lisbon terminal bearing the inscription "You are a fascist." "It was doubtless the work of an anonymous baggage handler giving vent to free expression," says Scott imperturbably, "a liberty I personally hope he continues to enjoy...
...obtaining an education and advancing in social status. Gradually, they saw their positions and careers threatened when in 1973 the government began granting regular commissions to conscript officers, who previously had received merely militia commissions. Groups of disgruntled regulars-captains and majors-thus began meeting in secret sessions to vent their frustrations. Eventually, these discussions broadened to include political and social topics. By December 1973, a nucleus of junior officers was already thinking of ways to overthrow the Caetano regime...
...This week, though, Congress will probably pass a scaled-down version of the bill that contains the earlier summer jobs appropriation, and the President presumably will sign it. The need is acute. Some social workers fear that youths forced onto the street by a lack of summer jobs will vent their frustration through crime and other kinds of antisocial behavior...