Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eyed at the glowing image on their radar screens: an incoming missile on course to hit Moscow in 15 minutes. They were tracking a rocket about the size of a U.S. submarine-launched Trident that seemed to be streaking in from the Norwegian Sea. There had been no particular tension between Russia and the U.S. on Jan. 25, 1995. Still, the officers knew that if this were a surprise attack, the first American missile to be fired would probably be from a submarine, aimed to detonate over Russia and generate an electromagnetic storm that would fry the country's electronic...
...hardly be argued that the game played by Kasparov and Deep Blue is the same as that played by grandmasters and amateurs around the world. A chess game without studied expressions, visible tension and fatigue is not really chess...
...just within reach and just out of reach. Republicans wanted deeper tax cuts. The White House wanted more spending for education and children's health insurance. Offstage was a contingent of House Democrats who were worried that Clinton was cutting a deal they couldn't live with. The tension was making John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee, get antsy. "The only time that I remember when you could get everything you wanted was on Dec. 24," he said. "You wrote your letters to Santa, and he put everything on the floor the next...
...will naturally grow, unmanaged and unfettered. If it stops growing, the affair falls apart, violently and wrenchingly. But we live to love again, our world having been enriched by all of our past affairs. It is spontaneous, and it is unmatched in human life. Relationships, however, start with a tension--if we weren't initially related, how did we become so?--and represent a struggle ever after. They are a constant fight to "work things out, to talk things over." There is no magic, and there certainly is no lasting impression on our lives. There is only tidiness, which...
Dunkle said the language barrier will help ease the tension when he presents his speech on commencement...