Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tension over Tenses. Not that Molotov conceded much. To understand his note it was necessary to go back to the Moscow agreement of December 1945, when the U.S. and Russia decided to partition Korea during a period of trusteeship while the Koreans learned to rule themselves. After liberation, when the Koreans heard about this deal, they were unanimously enraged. Demonstrations against trusteeship broke out all over the country. In Seoul, the capital, the liberal People's Republic Group, which turned out to be a Communist front, said it was going to demonstrate against trusteeship, too. The U.S. commander...
Anxiety dreams caused by emotional frustrations sometimes scare people to death, said Dr. Sylvan H. Robertson of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital. In such dreams, the heart and blood vessels "become surcharged and remain in a state of tension." Possible result: a heart attack while sleeping...
Ambition, academic or otherwise, must he made of sterner stuff than the average American male, the sociology fears. Excessive drive and will-in-win, even if it's only for a B-minus, can cost today's Horatto Alger 10 to 15 years of his life under modern tension...
Zimmerman's assertions, not calculated to cheer the life insurance societies or the honor grades man, was that tension and cagerness to get ahead mean less time to get there. Cracking one more book today is cracking the stomach lining of tomorrow, he suggests...
...neurotic young men hounded by fear. While the first attempt was confused and shadowy, the new story, dealing with three murky characters who hound a Greenwich Village habitue back to his Albany home for a practical joke, has a basis in realistic motives and comprehensible feelings. The mounting tension is skilfully underwritten, and the success of the work is dependent on the right refusal of the author to employ any of the tricks of emotional writing...