Word: fraying
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Journalism's unpredictable demands can occasionally fray the nerves of the staunches! individuals, but TIME'S staffers have learned to take the unexpected in stride. Boston Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand was lunching in "your above-average greasy spoon" in Boston's Back Bay when he learned by phone that he had been assigned to report a cover story on James Levine, the internationally acclaimed music director of New York City's Metropolitan Opera. Levine was 4,000 miles away in Austria conducting at the Salzburg festival. Could Hillenbrand, who had reported major TIME stories on such...
...power vacuum that lesser warlords are now fighting to occupy. In Burma, Khun Sa has tried to muscle his way into territory controlled by smaller criminal gangs. Even the 10,000-member insurgent Burmese Communist Party (B.C.P.) has joined in resisting Khun Sa's invasion, in an escalating fray that has resulted in the death of scores of mercenaries and turned at least 3,000 local Wa and Lahu tribesmen into refugees...
...some time been one of Amin's personal cooks. He was ordered to poison Amin. But Amin was as careful as any of the Borgias. He kept switching his food and drink as if he expected to be poisoned. The illegal's nerves began to fray as his attempts...
...something of a blur, but I do remember being on the field before the game was over. My intent was to protect the goal-posts from a fate similar to that which the Eli uprights had suffered the year before. "Fight fiercely, men," I cried, and headed into the fray in the end gone...
...Democratic challenger, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). His machinations during the primary race against Kennedy--pumping huge federal grants into states with upcoming primaries--are well-known, yet Cart-here opts for the literary parallel of his 1980 "Rose Garden strategy": he simply refuses to enter the fray...