Word: friction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dripless Paint. An odorless paint that will not splash was put on sale by Superior Paint & Varnish Corp. of Chicago. The paint, which looks like thick whipped cream, thins out under the friction of the brush. Price...
...Marchetti, who resigned last May as electronics director of the Cambridge Air Force Research Center after a row with a new commanding officer. Said Marchetti: "We got decisions that were stupid, just plain stupid, and some that were intolerable." He did not blame the military men for all the friction. "It is one clique pitted against another ... 'It is said of a well-known Air Force research and development center that at the officers' club the relative ranks are officers, enlisted men, dogs and civilians...
...plan, however well-administered, would tend to create friction. By lumping all Protestant sects into a single category, he neglects all sense of numerical proportion. One single Protestant group, the Episcopalian, is probably as large as each of the other two major divisions. Yet this church would have no claim on funds except through a Protestant interdenominational group--if and when such a group is formed...
...present campaign has continued a growing feud. This time Furcolo, disappointed with Kennedy's support, complained that the Senator was not assisting party organization. Friction between the men was further increased when Furcolo tried to persuade Kennedy to put off a major surgical operation until after the election. The combination of Kennedy's reluctance to enter the campaign and Furcolo's awkward attempts to push him in have further irritated the sensitive relationship...
Saturday night's incidents were the first manifestations of town-gown friction so far this year. In the spring of 1953 a University graduate was stabbed and seriously injured by a group of boys right off Harvard Square...