Word: tension
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Having had almost three weeks without a game due to final exams, the Harvard tri-captain was simply pleased to relieve the tension and get back...
During the first quarter, tension permeated the Canaday Common Room, as twenty viewers—mostly males—leaned silently and intently towards the television. A football-shaped cake lay nearby, half-eaten...
...Tension mounted in the game’s final minute, as the Steelers scored a touchdown and the Cardinals seemed upon the verge of countering with a touchdown of their own. In the end, though, the Cardinals could not convert...
...deep tension was built in from the start of the stimulus debate, when Obama stressed both the need for speed and the need for change. There is trauma surgery, and there is transplant surgery; one usually takes a lot longer than the other, and you'd be insane to try to do both together. So I wondered why he seemed to set himself up to fail, insisting that lawmakers do something very big, very hard, very fast, and in a whole...
...Southeast Asia, despite its relatively small geographic size. Here are five ethnicities, some of who have unsuccessfully waged long insurgencies against the central government and others who have made news recently because of the abuses they have suffered at the hands of the Burman-dominated regime. (See pictures of tension in Burma...