Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediate future.... It is therefore essential that the French Communists now keep and increase their strength with the voters, hold to their posts in the administration and regain their place in the Government. . . . A policy of sabotage . . . is essential [for them] to keep France in a state of revolutionary tension...
...tension was hemispheric. In a Calgary, Alberta court, the Crown interrupted his address to the jury to glance at a note. Then he passed it on to defense counsel, who broke into a grin and quickly apologized: "Pardon me, gentlemen, but I have just received today's ball score." The judge suggested drily that the jury would like to know the news too. "Of course, your Lordship," came the answer. "The Dodgers...
...deep-country detail (e.g., hustling the hay in ahead of a storm). But Rosy Ridge attempts to base its romance on authentic and charming Americana. The job requires more than prettiness and benevolent patriotism. Faces, hands, clothes and postures need to suggest hard work, real life and a certain tension of character, rather than mere magazine illustration. Most of Rosy Ridge's pleasant details are little more than mere magazine illustration...
...first war babies to reach school age. Babies who passed their infancy in these hectic times, warned an Ohio psychologist, are apt to be jittery about such a violent novelty as school. Dr. Clare W. Graves of Western Reserve University advised parents to watch for such signs of nervous tension as mouth-tugging and hair-pulling. After a couple of weeks in school, kindergartners are apt to go on talking jags; the only thing for parents to do then, said Dr. Graves, is to grit their teeth and listen sympathetically...
...dramatic interest. Audience tears are jerked-or jerked at, anyhow-on behalf of the dear, dead days of the two-a-day. More tears are tried for when the two little girls, lonely for their touring parents, turn up for Christmas and are entertained by the whole troupe. Some tension develops when the older daughter (Mona Freeman) falls in love with an adolescent socialite and becomes embarrassed about her cheerfully gaudy parents. But Father & Mother are so thoroughly kind and understanding that no harm and very little drama ever really develops...