Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came, the battle lines were drawn up. The opposing generals were U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther v. General Motors' Charles E. Wilson, U.A.W.'s Richard Leonard v. Henry Ford II, U.A.W.'s Norman Matthews v. Chrysler's K. T. Keller. An air of tension hung over Detroit as citizens waited for the firing of the first shot that would be heard in every U.S. home...
...Tension. Beyond the facts brought out by the intercepted messages, the first four days of the hearing developed almost nothing new. Ex-Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, who had made the first report on the disaster, snorted that nothing had so far been brought out which he did not know...
...hearing wore on, political tension mounted. Democrats, who control the committee, let the first two witnesses-Admiral T. B. Inglis of Naval Intelligence and Colonel Bernard Thielen of the Army's General Staff-rehash old facts. Republicans, furious at the slow pace, cross-examined vigorously, but with little effect...
...women of today's glossy fiction lead jumpy, exciting lives. They carry out hush-hush Government missions and make big money as writers and artists. They drink lots of highballs, chain-smoke, worry about themselves and talk to each other in subtle banalities to cover their emotional high tension. They love with anxious violence-usually two people at the same time, until the last chapter. And mostly they are terribly good, terribly sensitive but terribly confused...
Like the other 23 patients described in a recent book by five Manhattan doctors (Personality in Arterial Hypertension), her life had been sensationally unhappy. The doctors think this common factor significant. Is there some connection between emotional upheaval and high blood pressure? The doctor-authors speculate: emotional tension makes blood vessels constrict and cuts the flow of blood to the kidneys. The kidneys, short of blood, release a chemical which raises blood pressure...