Word: chafing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headliner: the low-slung car is operated on a shoestring. But Australian-born Jack Brabham and his Cooper-Climax are challenging-and beating-the world's biggest names this season in the exacting sport of Grand Prix road racing, the ultimate competition for lean speed machines that can chafe off rubber in skidding turns, accelerate to 190 m.p.h. on the straightaways...
Batista has almost no enthusiastic support among Cubans outside the government; Castro, by contrast, gets ardent backing from students, professional classes who chafe at the indignities and corruption of dictatorship, and the political left. But the Cuban masses refuse the danger and cost of active support for Castro and, by abstaining, line up for Batista. The eventual solution for divided Cuba is no more foreseeable than that of another violence-torn island-far-off Cyprus...
...that the U.S. faced increasing antagonism among Okinawa's 600,000 people. Despite the prosperity brought by 55,000 U.S. military personnel and their dependents, Okinawans resent the fact that the U.S. has commandeered one-fifth of the crowded island's arable land for military use, chafe under the U.S. refusal to consider returning the island to Japan "in the foreseeable future." * After Moore's highhanded tactics with Senaga, feeling ran so high that no pro-American candidate dared even enter the race...
This schedule leaves Columnist Miller almost no time for relaxation, or for more than a peep at his three-month-old daughter, but he does not chafe at being chained to a golden keyhole. "I consider my work just fabulous," young Miller confides...
...charge of work on the first crude airborne fire-control systems, later headed an Army Ordnance study that led to the development of the first Nike guided missile. By 1946 Wooldridge was chief of Bell's physical electronics department. Yet life in an ivory tower began to chafe. Says Wooldridge: "I began to realize that I was not cut out to be a scholar. I was much more interested in work that would lead to a practical application...