Word: vented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Second, emotionalism serves as a vent to frustrated emotions. Politicized violence and riots often act more as therapy than as practical initiative. For an oppressed person in Roxbury or the Third World, free speech is an unfamiliar abstraction. But the opportunity to stand up and redeem one's worth as a human being through militant or violent action...
...fires, he added, took place because caps were missing on several gas vent pipes. The caps have now been replaced, Healy said...
Often the anger is directed at the whole female sex. Rapists tend to view women with a mixture of reverence and resentment. They choose random women on whom to vent their roiling rage about mothers who mistreated them or women who rejected them. "I was angry with my wife for having a crush on my brother, and I was angry with the first girl I went out with when I was 17 who told me I wasn't assertive enough," said John, a rapist in the sex-offender program at Western State Hospital at Fort Steilacoom, Wash. "I felt judged...
...many companies, it is not unusual for fired top-and middle-level executives to be provided with secretarial help, résumé-writing assistance and psychic support from counselors who help them vent anger and wage effective job campaigns. Bethlehem was the first big firm to give white-and blue-collar employees the same kind of help. It maintains "career continuation centers" for displaced people in Johnstown and Bethlehem, Pa., and in Lackawanna, N. Y., near Buffalo, site of an 83-year-old plant whose shutdown was announced three days after Christmas...
Clark's loyalties are steadfast only to Reagan. They seem to shift according to circumstance when other Administration officials are involved. For instance, after he moved to the NSC, Clark helped engineer the ouster of his former boss, Haig. In encouraging the President to vent his anger about the nuclear freeze movement and El Salvador, Clark prevailed over James Baker and his aides, whom Clark dismisses privately as "political types" and "civilians." In January, Clark interceded against a White House reorganization that would have diminished Meese's role. That intervention strained his relations with his old friend Deaver...