Word: venting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where boys begin strapping on the huge, curved wicker cesta as toddlers-the game is played mainly at the $2 window in the U.S. In Florida, minors are barred from frontons, but as a youngster Cornblit got around the rules by climbing to the roof and staring through a vent at the leaping, whirling players below. After three years of instruction, primarily from a Cuban coach, he won a bronze medal at the 1971 World Championships at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France. He was just 15, but his lightning reflexes and devastating "kill" shots-150-m.p.h. caroms that whistle...
...Bloch, in a study released last March, found that 250 battered teachers from inner-city Los Angeles schools evinced nervous symptoms akin to "combat neurosis." Now the American Federation of Teachers is offering a special program for them. Worn-down teachers in various cities meet to discuss strategy and vent their frustration. No verbal or physical abuse allowed...
...analogy, the club meant to coteries of affluent gents what the speakeasy became in a subsequent decade, to hordes of thirsty patrons. In this play, Messrs. Bertie, Algy, Freddie and Bobby find that the club, while once a mere entertainmentm, has now become an exigency--a place to vent their grievances, desires and opinions. With unabashed candor and infinite self-important, they lyrically relate their thoughts on any number of topics, from the "graph" to the stock market. But their most vehemently held opinions all center on the nature of females. Although the four staunchly maintain their fondness for women...
Anyone who reads about the critical situation caused by Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.'s relocation of its steel mills [Oct. 3] should be as horrified by the news as are the citizens of this area. We need action by people all over the country to pre vent more of these abuses. If companies are allowed to walk away from areas where they have been located for years every time the Government imposes new regulations or equipment wears out, there are going to be many more Youngstowns. Why should the worker who has given years of hard work be pushed...
...victims of rapists range from toddlers to grandmothers, it should become apparent that it is not a "teasing female" that falls prey to the rapist but instead a female who happens to be accessible and appears to be vulnerable that becomes an object that can easily be overpowered to vent displaced feelings of anger and hostility...