Word: friction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean's office. In an announcement released early in September, Charles C. Pyne, assistant to the administrative vice president, announced that all student car owners will be asked to sign a pledge to keep their automobiles off the streets after. October 7. The declaration, which came after constant friction between car owners And the administration, will also require students to register their cars with the University...
...second semifinal, the crowd got the thrills it came for. Tearing along at 50 m.p.h., one car lost a rear wheel, dragged 100 yards on its axle before it stopped. The crash broke the fuel tank, spewed gas along the track. Friction set the fuel on fire, leaving a 100-yd. blanket of flame along the right of way. The driver escaped. So did another whose car later spun out of control at 40 m.p.h., crashed head-on into an entrance gate. A Soldier Field electrician who was caught in the crush was less fortunate; he was carried off with...
...members,*the committee probed, criticized, prodded and argued. All three services offered the same reasons for resisting change: Negroes were neither as well educated nor as skilled as their white counterparts, therefore they must be kept in unskilled jobs. Furthermore, they must be segregated, because mixed units could cause friction; the services could not "get ahead of the country...
Statesman. Bao Dai has been back in Indo-China about a year. He has made some progress, but it is slow and the difficulties are enormous. The French have promised his government more authority, but they are vague in making good and sometimes stupidly petty. One point of friction between Bao Dai and French High Commissioner Léon Pignon concerns the high commissioner's residence in Saigon. It is the old imperial palace, and the symbol, in native eyes, of paramount place. Bao Dai wants it for his own use, and he stays away from the city lest...
...there is any actual experience of the working of Socialist governments in parliamentary democracies, the evidence seems to point the other way. Instead of the Socialist machine accelerating in a grim geometric progression towards an infinity of state control, the British and Scandinavian models seem to have some inner friction or contradiction which soon brings them to a halt...