Word: venting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeared about three times, and had no lines, but her movement and her facial expressions said more than all the others' ranting and histrionics. True, the actors didn't have a great deal of substance to work with. There's limit to how many different ways you can vent your frustrations with life on "the rain." But I think that more understanding of the play, and less of an effort to assist Brecht in his valiant effort to make sure nobody in the audience missed the impact of what he was trying to say might have helped...
...Fortunately," went the lead editorial in the Washington Post, "there is no disposition in this country to search for scapegoats to blame for the situation [in Viet Nam]. Americans are singularly free from the disposition to vent a sanguinary fury on officials who have the misfortune to preside at disagreeable affairs . . ." Pondering this thought in his Georgetown home, Dean Acheson, 72, allowed as how it was not always thus. Perhaps recalling several brushes with Senator Joe McCarthy as well as his Secretary of Stateship during the Korean War, Acheson displayed his precise literary style in a twelve-line poem...
...break in, if I may, Mr. Sevareid, and say that I think Professor Morgenthau is wrong on his facts as to the desertion rates, wrong in his summary of the Express articles, wrong in his view of what the Economist says, and, I'm sorry to say, giving vent to his congenital pessimism." As an example of this pessimism, Bundy quoted a 1961 article in which Morgenthau wrote that "the Communist domination of Laos is virtually a foregone conclusion" and that "the Administration has reconciled itself to the loss of Laos." Said Bundy flatly, "Neither of those things...
Great flashes often struck out of the volcanic plume, usually hitting the newborn island near the active vent, and almost every time, the scientists' instruments showed a strong charge of positive electricity in the plume just before the flash. After the flash, the plume was neutral or negative, building up a positive charge before the next flash. This happened repeatedly without any thundercloud forming in the vicinity, proving that the volcano alone was generating the electricity. Just how it did this is still uncertain. In some cases, the positive electricity was created when a high-speed...
...volcano can make its own lightning, without "thunderclouds, a team of U.S. and Icelandic scientists studied the volcano that is forming the new island of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland. In Science, they report that they rode a fishing boat to within 250 yds. of the roaring vent, and flew in an airplane close to the hot, black plume. Once they saw rocks a foot in diameter tossed above their plane. They escaped injury and satisfied their curiosity: volcanoes do manufacture lightning...