Word: vented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several species of snails, worms, clams and a jellyfish. Some are so novel that they defy the taxonomic abilities of the biologists aboard the expedition's mother ship, Melville, operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Among these unknown wonders: white eellike fish that hover around the scorching vents. For lack of a better name, the scientists have labeled them "21-degree-north vent fish" (after the latitude of the site). Researchers believe the vent fish may be the first vertebrate discovered whose existence does not ultimately depend upon sunlight...
Linkage has thus become today merely a vent for American anger at Soviet behavior, rather than what it was designed to be, a vehicle for actually altering that behavior. Moreover, the Administration's various, often contradictory invocations of linkage tend to point up the absence of a coherent, long-range policy for linkage to serve...
THIS IS DOZENS, a vicious, angry, game rooted in the Black ghetto culture of our country, a ritual in which participants vent physical hostility through a series of rhymes and insults. When we first meet the young woman portrayed in Christine Dall and Randall Conrad's The Dozens, she is yelling at a correctional officer, playing the game, sharpening the instincts that serve her as well in the outside world as they do in prison...
...hand grenade strapped to his waist, killing himself, Khomeini Aide Ayatullah Assadollah Madani and at least six others as they participated in noon prayers. At week's end, for the first time since the ouster of President Abolhassan Banisadr, anti-Khomeini demonstrators took to the streets to vent their anger...
Outwardly, Schmidt reacted coolly to the U.S. decision. In a television interview from his summer retreat north of Hamburg, he said that West Germany would accept the neutron weapon if other European NATO members would, and if arms negotiations with the Soviet Union failed. In private, he gave vent to what one insider described as a "bout of exasperation" reminiscent of the anger Carter used to trigger. The Chancellor has reason to be worried: he has vowed to resign if, at its congress next spring, his party reneges on an earlier pledge to station medium-range Pershing II and cruise...