Word: venting
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Though he was not a candidate, Le Pen, 68, gave full vent to his rabble-rousing style while stumping for fellow far-rightists last month. He declared that many incumbents "deserve to be hanged" for corruption. He provocatively denounced European integration as "Hitler's dream come true." At one rally, he walked onstage with a platter bearing a papier-mache head of his main Socialist nemesis, Strasbourg Mayor (now Communications Minister) Catherine Trautmann. But it was in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie, where his daughter was running for parliament, that Le Pen really outdid himself. Taunted...
Mitchell declined "to respond point-by-point to Dave's letter." He said, "I was brought up to respect privacy and although I understand Dave's desire to vent his feeling, I hardly want to prompt future rounds of commentary...
...addition, the Hubers complain of loud noises from the garbage-disposal unit, delivery trucks to the Faculty Club before 7 a.m., loud music from evening functions and an unpleasant smell emanating from the vent discharge system...
...then the announcement of the complete genetic identification of an organism that lives at the bottom of the sea in the extreme heat and pressure of a volcanic vent. The headline was that this class of microbe, Archea, represents a completely new branch of life. But classification is not the stuff of passion. The real excitement here is the implication for extraterrestrial life...
...part of his treatment came with its own attendant fear, which was enlarged by his imagination. He was learning one of the penalties of living solely in one's thoughts. Merely the idea of being put in the shower terrified him. "I thought, 'What if something happens to the vent in the shower?' 'What if the water gets into the trach tube?' And so on. To get you into the shower, they've got a kind of hammock to which they transfer you from the bed, and you're lying there in a kind of net. I was afraid...