Word: venting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Favorite. At least 4,000,000 people in the Soviet Union play chess regularly, including 30 of the 85 players in the world who are ranked as international grandmasters, the equivalent of karate's black belt. Every town from Khabaroush to Kiev has a chess club. Taxi drivers vent their pent-up hostilities across the boards during lunch breaks. City parks teem with chess hustlers. Soviet children, who learn the game in Young Pioneer youth groups, argue Sicilian defenses and queen's gambits with the same passion that American kids show when they talk about double plays...
...advance, either under an alias (Parker, Stone and Phillips are his favorites) or in the name of a local friend whom he is taking to lunch or dinner. Temp has four basic test dishes: eggs Benedict ("You can tell a lot from the consistency of the hollandaise"), vol-au-vent ("So often it's gucky"), bouillabaisse ("Every maritime country has its own version") and coquilles St. Jacques. He is an expert at moving food around on his plate to make it look as though he is eating more than he is?all the while surreptitiously scribbling away in a gold...
...escape and drift around the tunnel interior. During Apollo's eleventh revolution, as Stafford and Cernan prepared to undock Snoopy for its descent toward the moon, the astronauts found that they could not depressurize the connecting tunnel. The drifting fiber glass had clogged a ¼in. tunnel vent. If something was not done, ground controllers feared, the unvented pressure might impart too much velocity to Snoopy as it undocked...
Angle of Twist. To solve this problem, Stafford and Cernan reopened Snoopy's sealed hatch. Much of the oxygen in the tunnel promptly flowed into the lunar module, where the pressure was less. The excess oxygen was then released into space through a vent in Snoopy...
...agencies now became intensely antagonistic towards these agencies, and began acting out spasmodic revolts in the streets. The agents of this transformation were middle-class reformers (variously characterized as from New York, "liberal-radical," and Jewish) who were beginning to use the frustrations of the poor in order to vent their won hostility towards American society. The result was conspicuous turmoil, destructive infighting among basically pro-poor forces, and worst of all, a rise in the sense of disorder and chaos which Moynihan sees as the problem most troubling to the non-poor majority of Americans today...