Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more food, there were no banners, no picket lines, no disorders. At Duisburg, Mülheim and Dinslaken, 50,000 workers walked out briefly, then returned quietly and took up their tools again. Such was the troubled surface mood. But beneath the surface in Germany lay a deeper tension. It tightened suddenly last week when the British intercepted and published a detailed plan for churning Western Germany into riot-"Protocol M"-and pinned responsibility on the Belgrade Cominform...
...sseldorf, German officials from other bizonal states agreed to divert part of their meat and fats to the Ruhr next month. If it worked, Ruhr tension would be eased. But what about the other Western Germans, plenty of whom were having thin scrabbling (see cut)? Was divvying up the rations just another way of divvying discontent? In London, Ernie Bevin sent an urgent personal note to George Marshall warning that German hunger and unrest would likely grow worse. And there were other tensions...
...metropolitan New York and many thousands more in Westchester County and on Long Island were without heat. In ice-sheathed New Jersey a state of emergency was called, armories were thrown open to shelter the chilled citizenry, and children were ordered indoors because of the danger from broken high-tension wires...
This tale is put on film with the high polish, the intelligence, and the mastery of tension that are to be expected of Director Alfred Hitchcock. But Robert Hichens' basic story is so intricate in plot and pattern-there are four interlocking triangles, and hints of two more-that only an inspired talent for drama and for characterization could have saved it from obvious artificiality. No such talent is in evidence; nor has Producer David O. Selznick improved matters in his screen play. The only characters who come sharply to life are the barrister's wife (Ann Todd...
...vibrato is a regular movement in the voice . . . coming from an off-&-on impulse of the diaphragm in tension. ... A tremolo is a very irregular movement in the voice . . . deriving from a fluttering movement of the tongue. As this movement grows worse it includes the jaw, larynx and, in advanced cases, the entire head...