1.   But the captain, an optimistic, sunny man, seemed anything but tense on Tuesday.

2.   He withdrew from performing in school programs and sometimes felt so tense on the baseball field that it affected his game.

3.   Jerusalem was tense on Tuesday evening after the authorities announced that they had specific intelligence that a bomber was on his way from the Ramallah area.

4.   Leiter said friends had called to say he looked too tense on the mound.

5.   The streets of Rangoon were quiet but tense on Sunday as hundreds of policemen blocked off parts of the Burmese capital to prevent demonstrations by angry students.

6.   The streets of Freetown remained tense on Tuesday, as British paratroopers evacuated hundreds of Europeans.

7.   While the new school year began safely, people were tense on all sides.

8.   Although quiet, the airport remained tense on Sunday, with troops from both sides eying each other warily through gun barrels from hastily dug trenches.

9.   In the ruins of Grozny, troops appeared tense on Tuesday, generally sticking close to their checkpoints and bunkers.

10.   Kisangani was reported quiet but tense on Monday.