Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...There is that much tension in South Africa," warns the chief. "My people are impatient...
...only wedded Beatle -he had married Cynthia in 1962 and had a son, Julian-had early been typed as the most restless, outspoken and creative of the group, even though he led, outwardly, the most settled life. There was paradox in this popular portrait, just as there was considerable tension in Lennon's belief that the well-noted contradictions were true. There were both beauty and ambition in his music, and a full measure...
...demonstrations, sit-ins at local government offices and an interruption in food deliveries. Leaders of Rural Solidarity, as the movement is known, say that they will not call strikes unless their industrial counterpart approves, which is highly unlikely. Even so, the farmers have injected yet another substantial element of tension into the crisis. Said a West German Foreign Ministry specialist: "A month ago, even two weeks ago, an argument over the Warsaw court's decision not to register the farmers as an independent union would not have been so risky. But now a hair-trigger situation exists...
...study Walt Whitman is to examine 19th century America, amidst its industrial clacking, economic growing pains, and political and social tension. Justin Kaplan appropriately spends a good part of his splendid biography creating the contexts for Whitman's experiences. On May 31, 1819, Kaplan tells us, Napoleon was dying of cancer on St. Helena, Virginian James Monroe was strutting about a rebuilt White House in knee breeches, a financial panic was threatening the young nation--and Walter and Louisa Whitman had their second child, named after his father but always called "Walt" by members of the family...
...have learned to relax a little, says Gary Montgomery, now in his second year. "Kids who are getting ready to take their first finals see their classmates getting really tense and ask students who have been around for a year, "Is this dorm always like this!' But usually the tension eases up after a while," Montgomery says...