Word: friction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...required miracles of designed precision. The huge aluminum antenna floats, for instance, on a film of oil not much thicker than a human hair, moves on a 30-ton bearing with the ease of a ship's gyro. The oil bearing eliminates what engineers call "stiction," for static friction, enables the antenna to rotate through more than three degrees of arc in less than one second, make a complete 180-degree about-face in less than one minute. With such agility, Haystack can track anything that can be tossed into space, right down to a fast, low-altitude satellite...
...Wheels. Suddenly, the thin trail of purple smoke that billows behind the tires of swift-landing jets turned to a dense cloud pierced by a long tongue of flame. Fire engines screamed to the rescue, but the flame died out harmlessly. A brake had locked the left rear wheels; friction against the runway had rasped the tires down to the rims and ignited the rubber...
Philadelphia has worked hard to eliminate friction between Negroes and police. It is one of the few cities with a civilian review board to handle complaints of police brutality. It assigns officers who patrol Negro areas to work in teams, with one white and one Negro cop in each red squad car. Yet when one such team answered a nighttime complaint that a car was blocking an intersection in a neighborhood near Temple University in North Philadelphia, where some 400,000 of the city's 600,000 Negroes live, the trouble began...
McCann labelled John R. Moot '48, one of the leaders of the Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive, as the source of political friction...
...return for E.N.I.'s purchase of 12.5 million tons of crude over a five-year period, Pignatelli offered to let E.N.I, operate and market the output of Gulfs Ragusa field, which had long been the main cause of friction between the two companies. E.N.I, bought the deal. Last week, as he waited for the formal signing, Nicky Pignatelli happily tooled his red Ferrari around Rome, where he likes to drive through the piazzas at high speeds. "Many princes are given them early," he said of the car. "I waited till 40 to get mine. I think...