Word: venting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which more than any other except the Prime Minister's requires ruthless determination to achieve his ends, even at the cost of his own popularity, Bevin seems too concerned with his own popularity and not clear enough in the lead he should give to labor. He has given vent to occasional outbursts against employers on the floor of the House, but he is very cautious about giving them orders, even on vital matters affecting production...
Starting with the judge episode in "My Favorite Wife," the News traces the "Let's Pan Yale Crusade" through "Hired Wife," "The Villain Still Pursued Her," "Love Thy Neighbor," "Strawberry Blonde," and finally "The Lady Eve," in which a bored waiter gives vent to a sneering "We want Pike's Ale, the ale that won for Yale...
Tired of Cambridge puddles, grey skies, and Sever, the Yardlings are making elaborate plans to give vent to dampened spirits on March 22, the date for a "Freshman Frolic...
...Avila Camacho had no siesta last week. Day & night the streets around his Mexico City house were jammed with cars for two blocks. Each morning there were close to 150 names on his waiting list-people waiting for positions, men with axes to grind and hates to vent. Through it all, Avila Camacho remained calm, and kept the pleased expression of a man with a fish on his line...
...Ickes' verdict is too sweeping in that it generalizes from the editorial page, which has doubtless degenerated into a mouthpiece of the publisher banker-stockholder group and is therefore duly disregarded by the public. Mr. Ickes fails to do justice to the liberty with which columnists are allowed to vent their prejudices in papers of all political bues, and to the comparative soberness of news reports which would be objective by European standards...