Word: vented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senators found occasion last week to vent their anger about the situation during confirmation hearings for T. Allan McArtor, President Reagan's nominee to be the new head of the FAA, replacing Donald Engen, who left office July 2. McArtor, 45, a senior vice president of Federal Express who flew combat missions in Viet Nam and did a stint with the Air Force's Thunderbirds precision-flying team, is expected to win easy confirmation. The Senators, however, put McArtor on notice. "You have got a crisis on your hands," declared Ernest Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat. Warned Ted Stevens...
With more Chinese making more money than ever, thanks to the country's economic reforms, Peking is trying to streamline the collection of taxes. Now ordinary Chinese have begun to vent their spleen at the taxman. The China Daily reported last week that in several provinces testy scofflaws turned on tax collectors with bricks and knives. In Shaanxi province, the paper said, a "gang of lawless ruffians" stormed a tax office, seriously injuring several employees. Peking has vowed swift punishment for those guilty of "assailing tax cadres...
...Washington, State Department officials studiously avoided any suggestion that a trade was in the works. Spokesman Charles Redman refused to confirm or deny that the U.S. and Israel were preparing a deal. As speculation about secret diplomacy grew last week, Secretary of State George Shultz gave vent to some undiplomatic anger. Speaking to an American Legion delegation, he declared, "We want to raise the cost to those animals that hold the hostages." Yet Shultz, a strong advocate of last April's U.S. bombing of Libya to punish Leader Muammar Gaddafi's support for terrorism, shied away from any hint that...
...athletically inclined: Vent your sexual frustration by working out at the Malkin Athletic Center. Who Knows whom or what you might meet? If someone else is there too, he/she obviously doesn't have a date ether, so you can afford to be direct. men, it might be a beneficial idea to bring along a spare flower or two, especially it you tend to use pick-up lines as unobvious as, "Hey, want to bench press my body...
...reliable authority that Professor Walter Kaiser maligned, denigrated or upbraided President Derek C. Bok today in his Shakespeare survey course. I was shocked to hear this as I had always presumed Walter to be a man steeped in "policy" as Shakespeare uses that word and therefore too canny to vent his spleen or choler (anger) before young and impressionable students...