Word: tensioning
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Then came His Honor's delayed pronouncement upon Darrow's motion to quash. Mr. Stewart had apologized to Mr. Hays and the courtroom tension had lowered, but when Defense-Counsel Malone heard the quasher denied he rightly forecast: "This is going to be a scrap from now on; a knock-down and drag...
...individual familiar with the Corporation said Harper had an increasingly testy relationship with his fellow members on the board. The tension peaked this past semester, according to the source, when Harper refused to put his name on a Corporation statement supporting Summers, who ignited a firestorm on campus with his January remarks on women in science...
...Tension built as the contestants reached a first moment of truth—five of the students were to be cut from the competition...
...fiery images, this one keeps replaying in the dark long after you turn it off, and while it felt like an attack on the calm of this watchful winter, in this case there was no apparent evil, no enemy other than the limits of man and machines and the tension between the goals we set and the risks we take. --With reporting by Michael Duffy/Washington, Cathy Booth-Thomas/Nacogdoches; Simon Crittle, Amy Goehner, Sean Gregory, Ratu Kamlani and Julie Rawe/New York; Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi; Rita Healy/Denver; Broward Liston/Cape Canaveral; Matt Rees and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem; and Winston Ross/Spokane
...East Ender” and “British to the core” as well as a Muslim “occasionally known to pray.” The eagerness with which everyone is urgently underscoring the innocence and decency of most Muslims seems to indicate an underlying tension: some part of the population must need to be administered this information. The politicians fear a backlash...