Word: venting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people of the U.S.A. complain of declining international prestige and wonder why. We of this country realize you have a color problem, but so have we, as we are outnumbered 100 to 1. Even so, I have never seen a European here vent childlike emotions on a small native child. That such a thing can occur in the U.S.A. is sufficient evidence of the immaturity of the people concerned to cause us grave doubts of the fitness of the U.S.A. to be a bulwark against Communism...
Sometime late Saturday night near the Brattle Theatre a burgiar broke into the parked our of John M. Hogg by forcing open the right front vent window. Two suitcases were stolen. In one of the suitcases were a platinum pin with 20 diamonds in it, and a platinum wedding ring. Two other cars in the Harvard Square area were burglarized in a similar manner...
...months prior to his registration at Harvard. In the spring of 1919, when the bitter controversy between Lodge and Wilson was at its height, that irascible individualist, Charles Town-send Copeland, paid a visit to Middle-sex. During an address to the entire student body, Copey found occasion to vent his political spleen by observing, "The world would be a better place without the three L's--Lenin, Ludendorff, and Lodge." Throughout the lecture, Cabot managed to restrain himself, but when it was over he marched up to the platform. Identifying himself coldly, he looked Copey...
Just what good does TIME'S Oct. 3 cover do for anyone except that by it you vent your spleen? (I vent mine on occasion by writing letters to editors.) I do not think that it helps to ease international tensions, no matter if it graphically presents an essential truth. Furthermore, I seriously question your judgment when you say, "Khrushchev was reduced to chumming around with Cuba's Fidel Castro, and such enthusiastic courtship of Castro seemed a petty pursuit for so great a power." Would it be petty if Russia set up its technicians in Cuba, made...
Married. Lieut. General (ret.) Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen. 81, World War II occupation governor of Belgium, who was imprisoned in 1944 by the Gestapo for his alleged part in an anti-Hitler conspiracy and from 1945 to 1951 by the Allies; and Cecile Vent, 54, wealthy Belgian also jailed by the Gestapo for underground work; both for the second time; in Nassau, Germany...