Word: venting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madonna and Child; in the Raphael room, a bronze Roman bowl stands next to a Botticelli; and eighteenth century French bread cake lies near a magnificent self-portrait by Rembrandt; near several Whistler pastel is a collection of lace in a cabine which hides a hot air vent, in the Veronese room. "It is truly a human museum," says Carter...
...tricky Socialist motion attacking "general government policy" gave Deputies the chance to vent their annoyance at Faure without going on record against an early election. Members muttered and interrupted Faure as he spoke until he finally shouted: "You asked me for a reckoning. The least you can do is to listen to it." "He's cooked," said one Deputy. Faure lost by three votes, and had no choice but to call for a formal vote of confidence next day. Leaving the chamber at 3 a.m., he remarked, "At least I can feel myself thoroughly beaten...
...Premier Edgar Faure, his eight-month-old government and his policy of reform for Algeria. But in their villages and provincial towns, the Deputies made a disconcerting discovery: their constituents were sick and tired of government crises. Worse, with elections scheduled for next year, the voters seemed ready to vent their displeasure on the Deputies themselves...
...triggered to go off when the coffin lid was lifted. However, the triumph of sepulchral gadgeteering was the "life signal," which offered mechanical surcease for the widespread terror of being accidentally buried alive. In such devices the victim was provided with a bell rope a speaking tube, an air vent or even a ladder...
...Faure took off, in the midst of all their other perplexities, to meet in Luxembourg for an eight-hour session on how to save the Saar statute. Adenauer tried to get Faure to put off the referendum and pressure Joho into calling a Landtag election so that Saarlanders might vent their hostility on Hoffman without making the Saar statute an innocent victim of his unpopularity. But Paris and Bonn had explicitly agreed not to intervene in the Saar's decisionmaking, and so the two leaders agreed only to put out a vague statement saying that they still believed...