Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., a mouse shut off the electricity. In Freeport, Ill., an owl jammed a high-tension transformer...
...Palestine's Jews that they could expect no help from London if violence was to be their policy. Hall also announced that Palestine's mild-mannered High Commissioner, Field Marshal Viscount Gort, had resigned because of "ill health." Gort actually was ill, but his resignation increased the tension...
There is "serious tension developing between Roman Catholics and Protestants in the United States." That is the opinion of Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Federal Council of Churches. To a mass meeting of Protestants in St. Louis this week, Bishop Oxnam said: "Roman Catholic and Protestant alike must discover and remove the causes that make for unbrotherly division...
...goes about winning the affection of the two little girls while posing as a friend of the family. It is all quite effective, and the secret room itself, whether it is intended as a symbol of Miss Ferroni's hidden past or not, adds to the general tension...
Democracy, Schlesinger holds, is a condition of tension, in which neither side has a permanent advantage. This theory of tension distinguishes Historian Schlesinger's from Revolutionist Karl Marx's theory of class struggle, which ends each bout in a sullen victory for one side or the other, or "in the common ruin of the contending classes...