Word: chafing
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...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...
...launch a run that stripped 500 yds. of line off the reel in the space of seconds. The duel went on until 1 p.m., when, after 20 hr. and 15 min. in the fighting chair, Clarke felt his line go slack. The violently thrashing marlin had finally managed to chafe through the thin monofilament and escape. Clarke and Young headed for home...
...Sunday churchgoers than any other nation on earth, the impact of organized Christianity appears to be on the wane. One problem for the future of the churches is the indifference and even hostility toward them on the part of the young. Even those drawn to the person of Christ chafe against outmoded rules, irrelevant sermons, dogmas that apparently have no personal meaning to a generation struggling to understand themselves, to grapple with such concrete issues as sex and social injustice...