Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baby. Confidantes and friends . from girlhood, Camilla Hill and Liz Nicholson are spending their summer holiday together again in an old village, full of gardens which ooze sunny peace as a honeycomb oozes honey. Liz's new baby creates all kinds of subtle estrangements, hilarities and tensions. A more serious tension arises when a handsome young stranger arrives at the local inn; though Camilla knows that he is dangerous, she is attracted...
...waterborne jet works on much the same principle as the airborne ramjet. It consists of a roughly cylindrical chamber with openings at both ends. As the engine moves forward, water comes in the front opening and is mixed with a "water reactive propellant." A "surface tension depressant" (wetting agent) is injected into the water too, presumably to help the fuel mix with the water stream or to help bubbles form...
Still trying to follow the line, Anna snapped: "My expulsion may have been caused by the tension and war. hysteria which the American press has done so much to stir up." Tired and testy, she finally shut off discussion: "Nobody in Russia has mistreated me the way you reporters have tonight." But next day, after the special Grand Jury (which is investigating espionage in the U.S.) let her off after only 30 minutes of preliminary questioning, Anna warmed up a little. To reporters, she elaborated...
...paint a jumble of spermatozoa, probably of bovine origin. He must have seen these animalcules under the microscope or in a picture at one time. That past experience in the subconscious mind of the artist has forced him to splurge them on canvas at a moment of "high tension." If there has been any disintegration, it has been in the painting of many abnormal forms, microcephalic (small-headed), acephalic (headless), atrichous (tailless) spermatozoa with a few typical specimens...
...startled gasp. Across the stage, bellowing like a Straussian tuba, rushed Henry H. Reichhold, the terrible-tempered industrialist (Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.) and chief financial backer of the orchestra. His shouts were directed at First Cellist Georges Miquelle for "disloyalty." Miquelle left, but his leaving snapped an old and mounting tension...