Word: friction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate school oriented to male education. But when war-time Conant austerity placed a woman in every class, co- education had arrived in practice, if not in theory, and the fears of the misanthropes reluctantly disappeared. Women were absorbed into the undergraduate curriculum with a notable absence of friction; now it is time, at least on the graduate level, that they were placed under the Harvard administration...
Protestant Protests. "An attempt to sell down the river our most precious heritage, our religious freedom," protested Episcopalian Dr. James A. Pike, Dean of the New York Cathedral (St. John the Divine). It is motivated, he added, by "fear of friction with Spain, which is so financially dependent upon us it is absurd." Thundered the National Association of Evangelicals: "An affront to all true Protestants." Flustered by the outcry, the Pentagon called an urgent conference of State Department and Air Force brass and tried to soothe everyone. The agreement has not yet been signed, said General Kissner, and when...
...before the bipartisanship meeting, the President had held an even longer session with congressional Republicans to give a yes answer to another question: Can the U.S. Government function when the President's party is split? In fashioning next year's domestic program for Congress, the possibilities for friction had seemed greater than at the foreign-policy meeting. But Senate Leader William Knowland intoned that the talks had been "constructive and harmonious." Colorado's Senator Eugene Millikin reported that the whole affair was "like the cooing of doves...
According to Astronomer Kuiper, the moon formed close to the earth some 5 billion years ago in a common atmospheric envelope, much like a double-yolked egg. Both bodies were surrounded by a swarm of small satellites. As the earth solidified and the oceans formed, tidal friction sent the moon moving out into space...
Such other blunt moral precepts as "Don't get drunk" or "Keep your wits about you," added to several poems, suggest the testy future schoolmaster. But in one impious song of fraternal friction, there is a glimpse of the irreverence that shocked many a later-Victorian reader...