This had been a tense, frightening day, and it wouldn't be over until Beach reported in.

It helps keep the weight down, and on this tense day, the anxiety.

"We do not fire on the church," he said The standoff was part of a tense day.

For 13 tense days he sat in on meetings that would determine the nation's fate.

Going into a tense final day, all results were still possible.

I do not believe that America was at increased risk of nuclear attack during those tense days.

Leader: A watching world knows that these last tense days will set the global agenda for the next two years.

After three tense days, the threat of battle remained in the air.

What could have been a long, tense day turned out to be worse.

In the second set, for instance, he was on the verge of making it a tense day.