Word: tensest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parliament met to elect the new Regent amid tensest excitement, for representatives of the majority Peasant Party had not yet been instructed for whom they were to vote. With a worried pucker in his brow Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu convoked his Cabinet for a last minute huddle behind locked doors. Several U. S. correspondents present bulletined to their editors: The likeliest candidate for the Regency is Queen Marie...
...Austrian government and the Austrian press have been unable to do: put an end to the imminent threats of civil war between Austria's two pugnacious private armies, the reactionary Heimwehr and the Socialist Schutzbund (TIME, Aug. 19, et seq.). Fortnight ago when Heimwehr-Schutzbund feeling was at its tensest, members of the Association of Austrian Industrialists marched to the office of Chancellor Streeruwitz to point out that rioting between the two groups was damaging Austria's credit abroad, driving money-spending tourists from the country, ruining Austrian prosperity...
John Corsey grew up the tensest little aristocrat of all, with passions to match his principles; to assault them; never to bend them, but eventually to break them, and break him. He was the kind of little boy who hides the humiliation of undeserved punishment. As a young man he seared in fire the hand with which he struck his friend. He rode at perilous water-jumps because he was afraid of them. He quit law because he could not find in it a way to make the world finer...
...mascot has been a cause of satisfaction rather than regret. The college has not had to feel responsible for the silly antics of mascots in the Stadium. Nothing makes a team appear more completely foolish than to have its mascot insist on turning somersaults in mid-field during the tensest moments of a game...