Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days before the race the crews are spending less time on the river and the silence over the Thames is shattered by frequent impromptu quartets. Red Top musicals are more reminiscent of the corner barber shop than of the opera house, but they do break up the pre-race tension. Then too, Burt Haines, Bolles' venerable assistant, has more time to take the boys over at croquet. Charley Morgan, the varsity manager, complains, "Burt plays like that lawn was a billiard table...
...tight spot. On Kwajalein after V-J day, an audience of G.I.'s greeted him with the chant, "When do we go home?" McCloy feigned deafness, cupped an ear, cried, "What's that? I can't hear you." It drew a laugh and eased the tension. In Nicaragua, while International Bank president, he was taken to a ballgame by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. The third baseman was wild. Later, at a banquet, the local after-dinner speakers kept asking for money from the guest of honor's Bank. When McCloy rose to speak, the atmosphere seemed sticky...
...Louis Crook got to thinking about a contemporary problem. Airplane radios of the day were bothered by high-tension interference from the engine's spark plugs, each of which acted like a miniature radio transmitter. Various attempts had been made to shush the plugs, but none had succeeded well. The professor focused his mind on the problem, dived into his basement workshop and soon had a solution. He scoffs at newspaper stories of how he worked 20 years on his invention. "Pooh," he says. "I didn't work more than 20 minutes...
...optimism was probably no more than a holiday from the tension of the cold war. But like all holidays, it was welcome. The woods and fields from Bangor to Santa Barbara told of June bustin' out all over. Working at his White House desk...
...hero and ace center-forward for Scotland, was as bad as manhandling the name of Joe DiMaggio. At halftime, the Scots had dribbled and passed rings around St. Louis' All-Stars and led, 3-0, but their hearts weren't really in it. The familiar air of tension and desperation, compounded with an occasional "Hampden roar" (a sustained Scottish cheer which becomes so engulfing that mikes have to be turned down until it ceases), were missing. Final score: Scotland 6, St. Louis...