Word: tensioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tension mounts in Iran before the inauguration of a pro-reform parliament, TIME Daily's Tony Karon discussed the situation with TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod and Tehran reporter Azadeh Moaveni...
...they reached the last note together and on key, the tension dissolved and the singers smiled at each other...
Auguste, 15, says there is tension between youth and the elderly in the neighborhood, especially when it comes to noise...
...Chinese would be betrayed. Chen and his comrades had no idea where they were. They had little choice but to hunker down and eat the unfamiliar Mexican food they were served. Chen picked up a few Spanish words, notably cigarrillos; cigarettes were his only antidote to the tension. At New Year's the anxious band was driven north to a town full of bars near the border, only to wait some more, presumably while the coyotes contacted accomplices on the U.S. side of the border. On Jan. 10 they headed out on foot across the desert...
...parents were probably frustrated, he explains, that his sister might apply to a different college solely for the sake of rebellion. “I believe it got a little tight a couple of times,” he admits. Pat McKenna ’01 observed similar tension in his younger brother: “Of course he felt pressure, but not from me. Most of the pressure was self-inflicted, and due greatly to the fact that we are always competing with each other in everything...