31.   But even this well-intentioned goal bumped up against the tensions of the place.

32.   But he remembers the tension of those days well, including seeing his wife qualify with a rifle in preparation for war.

33.   But it is a means to a real connection, so that people can come together in cyberspace and break through the tension of separation.

34.   But last Friday the Challengers did not let the tension of race preparation get in the way of some good old Down Under hijinks.

35.   But more unnerving is the way Tognazzi lays out the day-to-day, moment-to-moment tensions of guard duty in an assassination-prone culture.

36.   But sometimes true leadership requires bigger gestures, both as a way of protecting a political legacy and a matter of calming tensions of the moment.

37.   But the tension of the moment seemed to get to Coetzer.

38.   But the tension of the rivalry is still evident.

39.   But what you feel is not excitement but tightly wound tension, the tension of a truly great competition.

40.   Despite the tensions of the Vietnam War, life was simpler then.