21.   The day before Harris begins harvesting his Rainier cherries is a tense time.

22.   The two postponed their meeting, set for the day Jeffords made his announcement, so it could take place at a less tense time.

23.   These are tense times in Chicago.

24.   These are especially tense times in the joint US-Mexico effort to stem drug trafficking.

25.   They come at you as if these were not the tense times of the NFL playoffs, nor even football.

26.   This is a tense time for the Zieglers, with Patricia getting out the clothes and Mel working on the next round of financing.

27.   Though the arrests came at a tense time for American relations with China, prosecutors said the men were motivated by profit.

28.   Through some tense times, it stayed that way.

29.   Those are tense times.

30.   Besides more infectious diseases and general deterioration of health care systems, experts predicted a significant rise in mental illnesses, which tend to crop up in tense times.