Word: venting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sartre explains the situation. Orestes returns to Argos with his tutor and discovers the town still guilt ridden over the murder of his father. The town is preparing for its yearly ritual of penance. Orestes watches Electra vent her long standing hostility toward Aegistheus and Clytemnestra, and he begins his own debate with Zeus. Orestes is at this point an intellectual observer--detached, ironic, rational...
...bureau men borrowed a DC-6, filled its No. 3 fuel tank with water dyed bright red and coated its belly with a material that will absorb dye. Taking it into the air, they pumped more water into the No. 3 tank, forcing it to overflow through a vent. When they landed, they found that the wind had whipped the overflowing water to the belly and dyed it red. Included in the reddened area was the air intake of the cabin heating system. Conclusion: gasoline sucked into the heater had started the fires...
Fricker now spends his time thinking up exotic German dishes for his Stillman patients. Dumb waiters in the Holyoke Center now carry such delicacies as Rahm schnitzel, Beef Stroganoff, Wlenerschnitzel, vol au vent and falsan aux asperges to hungry patients. Fricker also cooks for Holyoke's tenth floor dining rooms...
Miss Mansfield "whose 165 I.Q.," according to the C.I. press release, "matching her physical I.Q. (Incredible Qualities)," says, "You can mess yourself up pretty heavily by giving vent to sexual desire. People, and particularly the young, should channel their sex drives elsewhere--either into work or sports." And she adds, "Indiscriminate use of sexual desire makes no sense. I mean, after all, you don't let a child eat all the candy he wants merely because he wants...
...Detroit's name for the unburned fuel vapors that escape from the cylinders of an internal combustion engine during the compression stroke. From the cylinders, the fuel enters the crankcase, where its hydrocarbon-rich fumes mingle with the vapors from hot engine oil, then slip out through a vent into the surrounding atmosphere...