Word: friction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transportation between cities that are too close for economic air travel. Berlin & Co. expects to test the first no-wheel experimental model by year's end. If it works well, it could be the first to break through the 200-m.p.h. barrier beyond which conventional trains encounter such friction and air resistance that they have trouble staying on the rails. Along similar lines, Ford Motor Co. has devised a model of a cigar-shaped vehicle dubbed the Levacar, which runs 300 m.p.h. along guide rails on a film of air forced through the perforated metal pads...
Near Guaymas, Mexico, McDivitt fired four retrorockets, each with a 2,500-lb. kick, to put the slowly spinning cabin into the proper trajectory. At 400,000 ft., the spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere, and communications, as expected, went out in the intense heat of friction. In his last garbled transmission, McDivitt could be heard to say, "O.K." Outside, the heat shield glowed red-hot as the temperature rose to 3,000° F. The astronauts were enthralled. "The prettiest part of it all is re-entry," said McDivitt afterward. "We saw pink light coming up around our spacecraft...
...Your problem is quite simple," George advised. "The sounds result from friction between the fleece, the wire, and the watercress. Just rub vaseline over the lambswool, compress the watercress as tight as you can." Morris made these adjustments and sure enough, the mane was utterly silent...
...scholar engaged in pioneering research on the impact of the visual form of the city has felt little influence from his colleague conducting experiments in computer simulation of city travel. And a housing expert who concludes that government must speed its efforts to increase city housing supply feels no friction from the researcher in the next office who has just put the finishing touches on a tirade against government interference in city renewal efforts...
Religious antagonism is caused by friction between South Asia's three great religions: Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. Though all three have undergone schisms and changes, they have nonetheless escaped the equivalent of the Reformation, which split the less flexible Christian faith but also moved it into the modern era. Relatively unharried by reformers and modernizers, Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism reached the 20th century with their ancient, fossilized social doctrines nearly intact. Hinduism's caste system, Buddhism's ambiguous attitude toward worldly institutions, Islam's hatred of infidels-all perpetuate intermittent communal discord...