Word: chafe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats are actively supporting Lindsay. In the News poll, Lindsay captured a bigger slice of the Democrats, 44%, than Procaccino, who got 37%. Procaccino's personality also worked against him. The contrast between Lindsay's Ivy League polish and Procaccino's almost deliberate coarseness began to chafe in a city that has a certain affection for sophistication. One joke making the rounds of parties has Procaccino so confident of victory that he has already ordered the linoleum for the floors of Gracie Mansion, the mayor's elegant residence...
...might be tempts Kunen to include lines like "What we do have is hopes and fears," or "Since the First Republic of the United States is one hundred ninety-two years old and I am nineteen, I will give it one more chance." This sort of portentous pronouncement must chafe at Kunen. He acknowledges himself that an accusation of status-groping within the movement "kind of hit home with this boy, because I've been angling for a position as Lord High Propagandist or something...
...fortunes of the coal companies and tends to emphasize production rather than benefits for the mine workers. Last week West Virginia Representative Ken Hechler called for a congressional investigation of the fund, which in 1968 earned only $4,600,000 on a $180 million balance. U.M.W. members also chafe at the union's un democratic organization...
...constant is his concern with the fundamental uses of strength. The U.S. has not quite grasped an axiom that European statesmen had long ago mastered: peace is not a universal realization of one nation's desires, but a general acceptance of a concept of an "international order." It may chafe all concerned, but irritation is acceptable if no one's survival is threatened. In his history of the post-Napoleonic period, A World Restored, and in writing of the later fusion of German states, Kissinger displayed admiration for Metternich of Austria, Castlereagh of Britain and Bismarck of Prussia...
...Spanish membership, though highly secret, numbers at least in the hundreds and probably includes several young Roman Catholic priests. In fact, many Basque priests advocate separatism as bluntly as E.T.A. guerrillas, defiantly fly the illegal Basque flag and chafe under Spain's state-supported church hierarchy. Two weeks ago, 47 young priests staged a vigil in the bishop's palace in Bilbao for six days, left only when the church agreed to demote their vicar-general and name a committee to study their demands for freedom from "temporal interference...