Word: tensing
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Distrust of government pronouncements has helped create an almost constant panic among the tens of thousands of Colombians still huddled at the base of the smoldering volcano. Twice since the initial mudslide they have been sent scampering to high ground after false reports of new eruptions. "Is it going to...
When British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Tom King arrived at Belfast city hall for a luncheon, he had to run a gauntlet of angry Protestants who pushed him, threw eggs and hurled insults. The Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the militantly Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, denounced King as...
There was no such progress in other familiar trouble spots. South Africa was torn by unremitting violence as blacks demanded abolition of apartheid and whites were willing to accept only gradual change. Guerrilla wars in Central America raged unchecked, and the so-called peace process in the Middle East made...
This ambitious scheme has got off to a somewhat stumbling and chaotic start. State bankers at the end of 1984 overused their new authority and went on such a wild lending spree that the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, had to tell them to stop...
At the bottom of every Warner Bros. memo sheet was a routine injunction that said, "Verbal messages cause misunderstanding and delays (please put them in writing)." And put them in writing they did, the most star-studded list of memo writers in movie history: the Warner brothers themselves; producers, directors...