Word: tensioning
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...caught my first glimpse of bare-skinned bodies on a frigid January night, it occurred to me that this was a bit of an impotent release of sexual tension. After being bottled up so long, we emerge from Lamont and Widener, and an intrepid few run naked in the freezing cold. No one touches. Meanwhile, the rest of us watch, giggling like schoolchildren who have just heard someone say “penis...
...Bright Hockey Center was announced at 1,211.It’s not a scientific process, these population calculations, in practice probably something akin to eyeballing the 2,800-seat facility and declaring it slightly less than halfway full. The figure represented a mood more than anything, the noticeable tension emanating from the approximate hundred dozen that encircled the rink, the excitement palpable in the arena as the fifth-ranked Crimson vied for first place in the conference.It was the biggest crowd at Harvard’s home rink for a women’s game since the Crimson drew...
...Internet, of all things, to strike back. She started the website gamingsucks.com, which features a blog that chronicles the travails of "gamer widows," women whose husbands are more interested in building up their character in-game than building relationships with their wives. Quintana's site simmers with sexual tension; a comic strip that she draws tells married gamers to cut off the PC and "push some real buttons...
...leaders in their fields, not to be the secondary concerns of preoccupied professors. It is important to continue work on teaching initiatives within the curricular review, but the new president should go further and introduce tenure for excellent pedagogy alongside research posts. Such actions would help to reduce the tension between research and teaching for the faculty so that the “publish or perish” climate does not interfere with professors’ critical role as educators...
...believe they can or because there's something about their game that Federer devours. But there's at least a handful who could knock him off on a given day. Beaten five times last year, Federer is flesh and blood, prone to the odd burst of mishits and tension-induced mistakes. A slight injury, a blazing hot day, a rotten night's sleep - any number of little distractions could level the playing field for a strong opponent, who might also just have a golden night like Russia's Marat Safin did in his semi-final against the Swiss...