Word: vented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard squad--which in just two games this weekend played itself out of contention for the Ivy title it's never won-reverted to right jabs and left hooks to vent the anger that comes with the knowledge that it very easily could have won those two games...
Some important safety systems were not working at the time of the accident. Refrigeration units designed to keep the highly reactive MIC cool so that it could not vaporize had been shut down before the accident. Other equipment, including devices designed to vent and burn off excess gases, was so inadequate, investigators hinted, that it would have been ineffective even if it had been operating at the time of the accident...
...other devices to warn when the temperature of the chemical exceeded 100° F, the point at which the liquid turns into a gas. Should the temperature rise further, the gas would expand, increasing pressure on the inside of the tank. Should the pressure build, a relief valve would vent the gas in order to prevent a rupture of the tank...
...frame also has its uses for artists looking to make abstract work more articulate. Two years ago, Robert Morris began showing a series of white bas-relief works that seemed to vent nuclear anxieties in a visual language of medieval fatalism. Embedded in an infernal slurry of plaster, human faces and fractured skeletons held the poses of apocalyptic death agony. This year Morris returned to painting with a series of more ambiguous abstractions. But a skeletal frieze has been retained along the frame to specify the note of mortal dread. Similarly, in 1979 Jasper Johns embedded a train of cutlery...
...criticize. What is singular about the Pi Eta incident in the free speech arena? Why action here and not in other similar instances where a voice of moral leadership was called for? Why didn't Bok take the initiative and use the Weinberger and the P.L.O. incidents to vent his spleen on the necessity of free speech...