Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the alcoholic quits trying to "run his own life," his tension, his feeling of hostility toward his fellow men and his sense of isolation disappear; he feels a vast relief and "release of power." Said a Tiebout patient after joining A.A.: "Now I am not unhappy about being unhappy. Before, I used to plan; now I can think without planning...
Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, will expound an original theory of "The Real Roots of Russian-American Tension" to the members of the Social Relations Society, the Graduate Social Relations Colloquim, and all interested persons this afternoon at 4:15 o'clock in Emerson...
...week's end tension was slackening in Sains, as it was elsewhere in France, but the mines of Sains we're still closed and the Abbé was still on guard. "This calm bodes evil," he said. "I don't trust it. I'm not afraid and the town knows that. Those who do not follow me as a priest respect me as the mayor...
...down the runaway mistress (Jane Greer) of a hard guy (Kirk Douglas). Mitchum finds the girl, sets up housekeeping with her, and lets himself in for no end of melodramatic consequences. Fairly well played, and very well photographed (by Nicholas Musuraca), the action develops a routine kind of pseudo-tension...
...sabotage was especially bad on the railroads. Track was torn up, signals were wrecked, engineers were hauled bodily out of their cabs. High tension and telegraph wires were cut. As a result of these activities twelve people were killed...