Word: high tension
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...Tension was especially high in Pennypacker, according to Pennypacker resident Tracy B. Bohannon '99, because they were one of the last dorms to receive their assignments...
Indeed, Cambridge was named the "bike-theft capital of the country" in 1994. The Square was hit with a rash of robberies earlier in the spring. And in March, a high-tension noontime shootout in the heart of the Square brought national attention to Cambridge...
Students opposing affirmative action say Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), Inroads and other high-paying, high-prestige minority recruitment programs create racial tension during the summer job search, and even after graduation...
...terribly sorry that some people were flustered; it was a high-tension situation," Davis said. "But I don't know what I otherwise could have done. It would not have been fair to leave the excess pages out there...
...military as being like a fraternity, as a closed society in which I recognize myself as an outsider. My brother becoming a high-ranking officer in the Marine Corps has, perhaps, intensified this feeling in recent years. The cold realism of the militarist is a sensibility that I've been exposed to, and am comfortable with. It's present in my poems. But there's also the flushed believer of the Catholic. There's a tension between the two sensibilities, a zone where some of my poems are born...