Word: tension
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...heat and tension of the War Britons came to know King George and Queen Mary in their innermost qualities of heart. Never since then has the Crown been narrowly identified with any class- whereas Queen Victoria was conquering middle-class and King Edward was almost dilettante Mayfair...
...most of the teahouses are inexplicably shuttered. Here and there, faces press against the windows or peer out from doorways, staring at the Americans as they walk past, with their M16s pointed down the streets or up at the roofs in constant anticipation of enemy fire. To break the tension, Stubbs occasionally smiles and waves, and he sometimes gets a smile in return. But most of the Iraqi faces project a mixture of fear and hostility. "Something's going on, and these folks know it," the captain says...
...public face of the Communist Party's hard line against democracy protesters in 1989. Li Peng, who stepped down last year, was also once minister of the power industry, so his daughter has dealt for years with charges of nepotism. Being his daughter "does come with a lot of tension and, with that, pressure," says Li. "But I've worked hard to get to this stage of my career." Li, who graduated from Tsinghua University with a master's degree in engineering, helped found China Power and worked her way up from vice president. As CEO, the charismatic...
Then, however, tension turns into genocide. And Rusesabagina turns from glorified houseboy into antiheroic hero. His hotel can offer hundreds of terrified Tutsi food, beds and the protection of a thin, blue-helmeted line of U.N. peacekeepers, commanded by Colonel Oliver (Nick Nolte). The big question is, Can the volatile local militia, eager to stamp out "cockroaches" (its name for the Tutsi), be kept...
...Tension is thick as some guests wait for the call with the results of the UC presidential election. “I brought tissues for either event,” says Alicia Menendez, who, like fellow guest Brandon M. Terry, is a Moore-Nichols supporter. The split-ticket disappointment revealed later in the evening casts a pall...