Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tension. Over in the Senate, the galleries were nearly empty. During the week, the Senate had managed to approve the appointment of Lewis W. Douglas as Ambassador to Britain, send the Military Merger Bill to the Armed Services Committee, vote OPA into oblivion (expiration date: June 30), and promise a cut of $4½ billion in the President's $37.5 billion budget. The Senators had also had to stew around while colleagues on both sides of the aisle belabored the Congressional Record with eulogies of William Randolph Hearst (see PRESS), editorials and letters from the folks at home. Gradually...
Ordinarily the committee does not act in cases concerning individuals, she added. Their most effective weapon in situations suggesting racial tension has been to attack the roots of hatred found within law enforcement and civic organizations...
...Tension between Russia and the U.S. was not increasing...
...Palestine, the Jewish Irgun Zvai Leumi ("Liberation Army") thought about the pipeline, blasted it apart in two places. That was a signal for renewed terror; four British soldiers were wounded in other incidents. Palestinians and Britons feared that they were in for another twelve months of bitterness and tension until U.N. acted...
Earth to Earth. Victory in two desperate wars had bled Britain white. For years both the wise and the merely smart had been pointing to signs of Britain's decline. The loosening bonds of empire, the "austerity" (that dignified synonym for poverty) ; the defensive tension in foreign policy were old symptoms of what was happening. But it took the coal crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS) to bring home to the world the fact that decline had reached the Empire's heart...