Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...down for the bar, I look up. That relaxes my back. I get the feeling that my direction is up. Then I grip the bar and take a deep breath and arch my back. Then I feel in the mood. I feel like a pouter pigeon. When I feel tension on my lower back, I rock backward, and the weight comes up automatically. I think of the steps, not the weight. Thinking of the weight would unnerve...
...very first match. San Diego's petite Karen Hantze, 17, was within one game of upsetting Ann Haydon when she began over-hitting in her eagerness, eventually lost 2-6, 11-9, 6-1. Then Darlene Hard, a power-hitting ex-waitress from Montebello, Calif., increased the tension by coming from behind for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Britain's 6-ft. Christine Truman. When Darlene and Karen needed just 45 minutes to humiliate Ann Haydon and Angela Mortimer in the doubles, 6-0, 6-0, the U.S. seemed well in command of play...
...admit Negroes in 1953, and he is personally sympathetic to the sit-in strikers' goals. But "civil disobedience'' is something else again. Branscomb firmly believes that whites and Negroes must equally obey the law-or face race riots. And at the height of the sit-in tension, Lawson told city officials: "The law has been a gimmick to manipulate the Negro...
...Paris. While none of the world-certainly none of the free world-thought that there was going to be any great revolutionary gains, still, we had a right to hope, I think, there would be some further amelioration of those conditions that seem to cause so much disorder and tension in the world...
...absence of Soviet cooperation, take such measures as are possible unilaterally to lessen and to overcome the danger of surprise attack." At his press conference two days later, President Eisenhower charged that the Soviet "fetish of secrecy and concealment ... is a major cause of international tension and uneasiness today." Under such circumstances, he said, espionage "is a distasteful but vital necessity...