91.   The atmosphere was charged with the tension of soldiers who have trained for more than a year for a night that had finally come.

92.   The athletes were happy and enjoyed the international atmosphere without the choking tension of an Olympic Games.

93.   The bottled-up tension of two and a half years of court battles brought on unrelenting nausea, she said.

94.   The compelling tension of his life, then, was between the Victorian world of his childhood and the uncertain modern world that intruded on him daily.

95.   The conservatory was also a response to the social tensions of the industrial city.

96.   The detective story develops toward a point of sudden menace, but the low-level tension of the spy novel is altogether different.

97.   The convention was my first exposure to the high-pressure tactics and tensions of nominating a president.

98.   The festivities at Manger Square this Christmas will be without the familiar tension of Arab and foreign worshipers praying under the watch of gun-toting Israeli soldiers.

99.   The extra muscle tension of super-slow skating works your legs like a weight workout.

100.   The emotions and tensions of the closing arguments.