Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thick corn. Shots which are merely powerful in black-&-white become overpoweringly real and immediate in Technicolor. To the layman the actual bombing, for all its excitement, is just an uncommunicative, tremendous tower of smudge. And the trip home, through fierce air fighting, lacks the fine coherent tension which make the first two-thirds of Memphis Belle a remarkable film...
...chains and humiliation, are forced to produce huge quantities of weapons for their German masters. There was some doubt whether Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov's forces will be, unequivocally, an army of liberation. But all the way from London to Russia, throughout the human mass of tension and torture that is Europe, there is little doubt that Czechoslovakia's experience with liberation will answer the one fundamental question: What is victory...
...salon of British kings (he was a personal friend of the late George V), he knows the world because he was bitten by it. When the Professor came back from Chicago, 20-year-old Jan got $80 from him and went to the U.S. The high-tension intellectuality of his father's house was too much for him ("the house was full of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Dostoevski"). His preference for America was motivated by more than the Continental legends of the Wild West and his father's limited U.S. experience: Jan's mother, Brooklyn-born Charlotte Garrigue...
Sharpest blow was struck by Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron's Committee on Home Front Unity (polite name for the Los Angeles Race Committee). It recommended that the Hays Office ban Uncle Tom on the grounds that the picture would cause "racial tension...
...twins had a poor kidney blood supply. Mystified, the doctors conclude that 1) Lead in the Pants has something the matter with him that the doctors cannot find; 2) Speed-Up George (who now has a heart attack daily) hardened his arteries and exhausted his heart solely by his "tension and drive." This, if true, shows that bad psychological habits can bring on heart disease without any help from infection or inheritance...