Word: venting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than that, the concept of the CRR is wrong. It was set up to discipline student radicals, but it gave students no way to vent their complaints about the Faculty. It admits hearsay evidence, as no court of law does. It holds closed hearings. Its decisions cannot be appealed...
...Nixon appointee who contributed $29,000 to Republicans last year, De Roulet, 47, was no stickler for diplomatic decorum. He liked to vent his conservative views in pithy asides, and several times was overheard referring to islanders as niggers. "He loved dogs more than humans," a Jamaican official said, recalling that for the return of one of his lost pets (a mongrel dog) the ambassador once offered $500, which is more than many Jamaicans earn in a year. De Roulet rattled Jamaicans even more by telling a Rotary Club lunch gathering that the visa section of his embassy...
There is dissension within the Justice Department over Nixon's declaration that no member of his Administration should be granted immunity from prosecution in the Watergate case. This sounded like a pledge of justice without fear or favor. But some attorneys argue that it could actually pre vent the grand jury from getting all the evidence about the possible implication of the aides closest to Nixon. Specifically, they note that Nixon Counsel Dean asked for immunity from the Justice Department. If granted immunity, Dean said, he would testify about the involvement of officials "both above and below...
While he says that student activism in the late sixties was improperly aimed at the universities as the nearest place to vent one's frustrations, he would not welcome students who are not interested in national affairs...
...upwelling of the ras le bol (fed up) spirit that turned French campuses into battlefields in the anarchic days of May 1968. With a spontaneity and speed that startled even their left-wing organizers, high school students all over France poured out of their classrooms last week to vent their rage against a new draft law. In Paris, where all but five of the city's 60 lycées were shut down, some 80,000 teen-age boys and girls defied a government ban to gather on the Left Bank for a protest march that...