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Any cant word or phrase becomes tiresome, which perhaps accounts in part for Burchfield's impatience with at the end of the day . (The word parse , rapidly deployed in press conferences and commentary after President Clinton used an eyebrow-raising tense to describe his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, went from inert silage to spent husk in a matter of hours.)
A woman's foot is always engaged in a tense visual dialogue with her shoe, demonstrating its own shape and flexibility against the shoe's claims, displaying its own erotic capacities in tandem with those of the suggestive object.
As Madeleine Albright arrived in the Middle East to join the tense Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, various commentators in the Arab press drew parallels between the current state of Arab politics and the indiscipline, score-settling, and violence that marred the two-week biennial Pan-Arab Games which ended Tuesday in Amman, Jordan.
Among other details the Times describes the tense atmosphere at the rescue board meeting in the Fed conference room, in which rival firms were persuaded to take highly unusual collective bailout action.
Enduring a tense dinner out with Ananda Gupta, Kate Wing, and Beth Sherman--a meal marked by painful silences and women running sobbing from the table every few minutes, and thankfully interrupted by Kate Galbraith calling the Health Department and having the joint shut down.