Word: friction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was also a lot of friction between the new towners and the Government corporation. Since they did not live in the new town, corporation executives were slow to respond to the residents' demands for public telephones, playgrounds, and community centers...
...people over. As a conciliatory gesture, he let almost 3,000 criminals and political prisoners out of jail to join in the ühuni (freedom) anniversary fete. He has won over many former opponents, including Freddie's brother, who now echoes that "tribal jealousy and friction have brought Uganda to a standstill...
...Negro like we do down here, how we have had wonderful relationships with the family Negroes for over 20 years, and how we both prefer social distance from each other. Styron also knows that the Southern racial stigma is based more on a lack of contact than on friction or closeness. There still exists a deeply feared law of apartheid in the South, and it precludes intimacy between whites and blacks at any level...
When it enters the target, the flechette is stripped of an ablative coating that has protected the uranium from the 1000° F. temperature generated by air friction (solid uranium will ignite at 338° F.) As the bare depleted uranium comes in contact with steel, an exothermic, or heat-producing, effect occurs when the metals react chemically. This instantaneous heating, combined with the searing heat of impact, raises the temperature of the surrounding steel to such a degree that the flechette literally melts its way through, leaving a hole many times its own diameter...
Last week the friction between the two was still evident. At a lavish election-eve reception, for which invitations had been issued in both Thieu and Ky's names, Ky pointedly did not appear. NBC had arranged for both men to appear on its Meet the Press program this week, but when it came time for the taping, Thieu told NBC that he would not appear with Ky. Thieu's press officer coolly explained why: since most of the questions would deal with "policy matters, if General Ky sits through the program, there would be no questions directed...