Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cavendish-Bentinck and the U.S.'s Lane (in a dark business suit) showed up, shook Bierut's hand, drank his health, sat for an hour at a big round table and exchanged pleasantries with Bierut, Berman and others of the ruling clique. There was no hint of tension or mention of terror. Explained a Pole: "Everyone was extremely cordial and polite; after all, we are all gentlemen...
...fluctuation of fortune -which is injurious to the backer's immediate circle and in particular to children. . . . Secondly, the anxiety which follows a losing run, the empty feeling in the stomach ... in time come to be appreciated in a masochistic fashion. They are part of the tension which gambling provides and which in my opinion is its principal attraction...
...Losing regularly does not cure your gambler, nor will taxation, curtailment or prohibition. . . . He gambles because it provides an emotional tension which his mind demands. He is suffering from a deficiency disease, and the only antidote he knows is betting...
...Casey Dennis is made the goat, although he has done only what appeared to him to be his duty. Old A.A.F. hands may think they recognize certain incidents and characters in Command Decision, but Novelist William Wister Haines (Slim, High Tension) says in the customary solemn foreword that they are all dreamed up. An old A.A.F. hand him self, he was long enough (33 months) at Eighth Air Force and Strategic Air Forces headquarters to learn something of the woes of staff and command. His story is a little stagey here & there (the entrances & exits are particularly...
...each side above the temples, removes each bone button (to be replaced later), cuts and folds back the brain covering, the dura mater, then carefully slices through a measured section of the frontal lobes' white tissue. As the knife cuts the nerve fibers, the patient's tension visibly relaxes. He grows confused, dull, slow in speech, childish...