Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word "up", which the Harvard team isn't supposed to the this week, has been an almost endless topic of discussion for Boston sports writers. Observers close to the squad are of the belief that, while not at the high emotional pitch reached for the Holy Cross game--a tension that will not return until Yale week--the Varsity is fully aware of the power latent in the Rutgers attack, and is far from complacent...
...clear exposition of U.S. attitudes and intentions. In a dispassionate, soberly frank speech last week, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes told Russia that its own attitude of distrust and its belief in the inevitability of World War III were at the root of the "continued if not increasing tension" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
Only a year ago, the U.S. had still believed that economic and political freedom were inseparable in One World. Since then, political hopes have been dulled by continued East-West tension, economic hopes are hardly mentioned at all. In London last week, an international group met (very quietly) to discuss free trade...
...Execution Night in Nürnberg, and in the spacious second-floor pressroom at the courthouse, the air was heavy with tension and tobacco smoke. Eight newsmen, chosen by lot, had gone to see the war criminals die. To kill time, the 60-odd correspondents who were left behind paced the floor restlessly, watched each other with guarded eyes, plotted how they might scoop the pool. The minutes and hours ticked by. Around the world, they knew, deadlines were coming & going, while editors stood impatiently over teletypes...
Talking of the slow progress toward peace, he said "the very root of our difficulties" may be a belief by Soviet leaders that another war is inevitable. His thesis was that such a fear, not only in Russia but elsewhere, increases tension and brings about conditions which prevent world recovery...