Word: venting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue. Unless he is elected, he said last week, the number of crimes will double in the next four years. But in Boston, where he canceled an open meeting because of the fear of hecklers, he deplored the "hate" vote. He said: "Simply to allow the American people to vent that hatred as they vote for Nixon-to do so because they are voting against somebody else-that isn't enough. We don't want to win it that...
...estimated 20,000 people turned out for the Wallace rally at the Common, but it soon became evident that a very large part of the crowd--probably more than half--had come to vent their disapproval of Wallace and his campaign. As the candidate began to speak, he was greeted by loud chants of "Peace!" and "Go home!" and by dozens of anti-Wallace signs...
Sioux Indians, by contrast, are known to give vent to their emotions with re ative ease. Among them, cancer is virtually nonexistent...
...students, struggling only two weeks ago to prepare for the exams that would determine their place in French society, bent their energies to completely paralyzing France's universities and tying up many lower schools as well. Inspired by the students' example and glad of the chance to vent their own grievances, striking workers seized scores of factories in the worst epidemic of wildcat work stoppages since the days of Leon Blum's weak Popular Front government in 1936. By the weekend, the fast-spreading wave of strikes had squeezed transportation to a crawl, crippled mail service...
...polluting sense, man is the dirtiest animal, and he must learn that he can no longer afford to vent smoke casually into the sky and sewage into rivers as he did in an earlier day, when vast reserves of pure air and water easily diluted the pollutants. The earth is basically a closed system with a waste-disposal process that clearly has limits. The winds that ventilate earth are only six miles high; toxic garbage can kill the tiny organisms that normally clean rivers. Today, industrial America is straining the limits...