Word: venting
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Such dismissiveness is perhaps too facile. An enterprise that began life at the blinding dawn of the nuclear age has achieved quite a lot during a passage singularly fraught with danger for the world. The U.N. has served as a forum for hair-trigger antagonists to meet regularly and vent their grievances. It has provided a framework for international laws that govern activities ranging from nuclear nonproliferation to the use of outer space and the ocean floors. It has helped unfortunate nations set up democracies, create livelihoods and combat threats to health. It has acted as a useful buffer...
Most of the break-ins occurred through the rear or front vent windows of the cars, which were damaged during the attempted robberies. Vent windows were used for entry because they are easier to force open than normal windows, Johnson said. But in some cases, driver-side windows were shattered and used for entry instead...
...discovery of the vents was a major surprise, scientists were astonished to learn that at least some of these submerged geysers--whose hot, sulfurous environs bear more than a passing resemblance to hell--are actually bursting with life. Nobody had invited biologists along to study the vents because nobody imagined there would be anything to interest them. But on a dive off the Galapagos in 1977, researchers found the water around a vent teeming with bacteria and surrounded for dozens of feet in all directions with peculiar, 8-in.-long tube-shaped worms, clams the size of dinner plates, mussels...
Holland had a reputation as a "hot stick." He once climbed so steeply that fuel flowed out of the vent holes on top of the B-52's wing tanks. His hard flying in one air show popped 500 rivets during a prohibited climb, and he put his B-52 into a "death spiral" over one of his daughter's high school softball games. One copilot complained he had to wrestle control from Holland, who cleared a ridgeline by three feet during a run three months before his final flight. Most ominously, junior crewmembers said Holland had often talked about...
...MUCH OF LAST WEDNESDAY, TERRY LYNN Nichols busied himself with a few simple chores around his newly purchased two-bedroom house. He asked to borrow Etta Mae Hartke's ladder so that he could fix a loose metal vent on the roof. "I said it was O.K., if he put the ladder back," Hartke, 76, recalls. "When I looked, it was back where it was supposed to be." He had cable television installed, telling the Cablevision worker he was glad the TV was finally hooked up so he could "keep up with the Oklahoma bombing." And one of the last...