Word: venting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mandatory Reports. "Child abuse is not a new phenomenon," says Katherine B. DeHinger, chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau. What is new is the increase and violence in the attacks. Under the stress of modern life, more and more parents apparently vent anger and frustration on the easiest targets at hand. But while it is relatively easy to recognize a case of child beating, it is relatively difficult to nab the child beaters. They invariably deny responsibility, often take the victim to a different doctor after each successive beating. Since the infant can rarely speak for himself...
...time when the party needs, above all else, a united effort of its moderate and liberal elements if it is to survive the conservative fiasco, Mr. Nixon chooses to vent his spleen on Governor Rockefeller, who would not sacrifice principle with Mr. Nixon's gay abandon...
...soap bubbles across a whole countryside of space. This leisurely, carefree, open stance does not fit him for long, for within three years he produces the 1901 drypoint self-portrait, showing himself poised in a scream. All the features of the face in this self-portrait work together to vent this scream--all except the eyes. The drawn muscles of the face, the stretched mouth, the twisted lips and the lines in the forehead leading down past the nose--express a sensitive adolescent's wild and frustrated response to a confusing world. But the eyes are open and alert...
...description of the assassin had already been broadcast three times by police on the basis of a report from Eyewitness Howard Brennan. At 1:15 p.m., Officer Tippit saw Oswald and called him to his squad car. Oswald walked over to the window vent, spoke briefly. Tippit got out, started toward the front of the car. Oswald shot Tippit four times with his revolver. Tippit was dead before he hit the ground. Says the Commission: "At least 12 persons saw the man with the revolver in the vicinity of the Tippit crime scene at or immediately after the shooting...
...anger, day of wrath; Section men will late repent, Choking in the aftermath Of Confi-guide and vengeance vent. Today's the day, the very last To give your hated ones a blast...