Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Midnight Mass. As night fell, tension mounted around the moonlit road blocks. From Sherbrooke, 40 miles away, word came that a heavily armed force of Provincial Police was mobilizing. Strikers made more rigid searches of every car coming down the highways. Near midnight, all hands left their posts for midnight Mass at the big stone church of Saint-Aimé, where strikers had prayed daily that they would be granted the union security and a 15?-an-hour wage boost that they had demanded. (Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy...
First a group explores the problem before it, arguing and getting more and more nervous. Sometimes someone will tell a joke and relieve the tension for a moment. After an agreement has finally been reached, there is a let-down, usually marked by joshing and small talk...
...country 3000 miles, away; when distributed through a disjointed group of very conceivably irresponsible countries, 300 miles distant the guns and planes can be both inflammatory and an efficient block to negotiation. It is pretty shortsighted to entirely rule out possible negotiations designed to case Russian and American tension. If we deposit a huge mass of uncontrolled arms in Europe it would do probably do exactly this...
...subject of Kluckhohn's address was "Adjustment and Adaptation: An Anthropological Approach." He drew a distinction between adaptive behavior with the sole purpose of helping the individual and the group to survive, and adjustive behavior, which reduces tension and decreases motivation in the individual...
...summers the Trippes take their 16-year-old daughter, Betty, and three young sons, Charles, John and Edward, to a rambling, grey-shingled house on the ocean's edge at East Hampton, L.I., where Trippe likes to swim and surffish with the boys, exercising hard to work off tension. In winter the whole family occasionally goes skiing in a body...