Word: friction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A.F.L. has called a mass meeting of service and maintenance workers at 8 p.m. in the Hotel Commander. The meeting, it said last night, was "at the request of scores of University employees, tired of the growing friction and disunity within their own ranks...
Percentage & Average. Any roulette wheel can develop a slight imbalance, or an imperceptible rough spot which makes the friction uneven as it turns. This will favor certain numbers, and a player who discovers it may profit briefly. But a properly run casino checks the wheels constantly and changes them from table to table just to guard against such innocent larceny. The astonishing thing in Señor Delgado's case was that despite all normal precautions he kept on winning, in seeming defiance of the laws of percentage and average...
Even the ones that shine bright at stars weigh only a few ounces. None are expected to be large enough to reach the earth before the friction with air molecules burns them...
...from the tree-lined streets. Its civic boosters proudly call it "the richest square mile of residential area in Canada." The village has also become the chief residential zone of prosperous Toronto Jews, who today make up 40% of its 18,-ooo inhabitants. There has been little anti-Semitic friction in Forest Hill, however; the village long has been proud of that...
...played by Uta Hagen; and the director, played by Stephen Hill. As the inner play is prepared for New York, conflict develops between Elgin's wife and the director and Elgin's ability to return to stardom is doubted. Thus, tension rises and the three characters are in constant friction...