Word: venting
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...often noted, with a touch of sadness, that most of his friends were wed. We saw the feelings of his parents, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, turn from indulgence to impatience until, one long weekend when the Prince was away and unreachable, the Queen gave vent to the slightly petulant and now famous question that lent the episode its title...
Knowles proceeds to rig this promising situation unmercifully. His plan calls for the Devon boys to find a scapegoat on whom they can vent their frustration. They are goaded by the editor of the school paper, whose murky motive seems to be a belief that the U.S. needs a good purging. Someone breaks a new window in the chapel; four athletes corner a suspect and, while trying to force a confession out of him, bring on his death. A teacher then meditates on "that monster war-sending last thin death waves still reverberating around the world, even here to this...
...what they used to be, but it is so long since they were what they were that few can remember what they might have been. Indeed, one of the main uses of these big compendiums of current art is to enable the watchers on the prom ontory to vent such lamentations. In a world of instability and doubt, now that modernism is formally over but art keeps obdurately being made, one of the mottoes of the conservative critics is Ishmael's in Moby Dick: "The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? -Because...
...dossier on human nature--normal, bizarre, humorous and, sometimes, personally tragic. One case that came up before the PBH group this summer gave new meaning to "problem solving". Known simply as the "skunk case," a woman brought her landlord to court for an unusual claim of negligence. The air vent in the ceiling of the woman's apartment had been falling off regularly; and the landlord then fixed it, to his credit. However, when a small skunk found its way through the roof and into the air vent, the grate didn't hold out and the surprised skunk came tumbling...
Still, Northeastern comes to Cambridge eager to return to its winning ways and to vent some of the frustration that has built up over the past two weeks...