1.   She did need a shower to wash away the tension from a day that had been too full of emotion.

2.   Along with shaking the tension from his legs, he gently laid his pole at his feet.

3.   Relief drains the tension from her face.

4.   One teacher said feuding between girls was directly linked to tensions from home.

5.   American diplomats are working hard to reverse the growing polarization of Greek and Turkish positions and to keep those tensions from exacerbating the Aegean and Cyprus disputes.

6.   As Clinton and Congress begin debate this week over how to save Medicare from bankruptcy, these developments have drained much of the tension from the discussion.

7.   A U.N. envoy on Monday urged the Serbian government and the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo to act fast to prevent tensions from worsening on the border.

8.   Bush spoke on a day of heightened tension from new alerts.

9.   But he has also drained some of the anxious tension from the music, and created a soothing homage.

10.   But there are still signs of the tension from the murder that has roiled the base, which sprawls across the border of Kentucky and Tennessee.