Word: venting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next Moment, Whoom! To watch* a jet engine spring into life is to feel that power. Dimly visible inside is the turbine, like a small windmill with close-set vanes. When the starting motor whines, the turbine spins. A tainted breeze blows through the exhaust vent in the tail, followed by a thin grey fog of atomized kerosene. Deep in the engine a single sparkplug buzzes. A spot of fire dances in a circle behind the turbine. Next moment, with a hollow whoom, a great yellow flame leaps out. It cuts back to a faint blue cone, a cone that...
...expert envoy-extraordinary sent from a distant planet to report on human behavior. Under this bland mask of anthropological detachment he hid his passionate conviction that man, in being forced to labor in the sweat of his brow, was not paying a divine penalty for sin but simply giving vent to his most powerful natural passion : "the instinct of workmanship...
What Semmler had said was not highly important, since most of it was untrue or half true. What was more important was the responsive chord his tune had struck with Germans, eager to vent the blame for their troubles on the occupation...
...Capote'-at this minute the words are resounding on many a sixtieth floor, and 'get him' of course means make him and break him, smother him with laurels and then vent on him the obscure hatred which is inherent in the notion of another's superiority...
Fire Bug. A joint Government-industry committee put its finger on the cause of fires aboard two Douglas DC-6 planes, which had led U.S. airlines and Douglas Aircraft Co. to ground all DC-6s in service. As expected (TIME, Nov. 24), CAB decided that the gasoline tank vent forward of an air scoop permitted gasoline to be sucked into the heating system, where it ignited. Douglas plans to move the vent and make some other minor design changes, paying for them itself. The airlines do not expect to get the 92 grounded planes back into service until next month...