Word: friction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction against the earlier violence had already set in, and he now concedes that Predecessor MacArthur on the whole did a good job in a difficult period. Reischauer's own stiff tests still lie ahead. One of them: defense, U.S. occupation of Okinawa is a continuing source of friction in Japan, which wants to resume full sovereignty (it may soon get a bigger role in the island's administration). Though Japan spends only 1.4% of its national income on defense and relies on the U.S. for its protection, U.S. airbases and 45,000 servicemen (fewest since the occupation...
...Mississippi redneck could guess what James Myron Ward, 42, of the Jackson Daily News (circ. 42,593) would say about the "Friction Riders"-as the News calls them. Jimmy did not let them down: "The Congress of Riot Encouragement [Ward's phrase for the Congress of Racial Equality] and concerned officials in Washington rejoice that McComb fell and the Greyhound bus terminal rest room has been integrated. While these dear hearts are jubilant over victory day, people down this way mark last Friday as VD day in Mississippi...
...Institute of International Education undertook a six-month survey and last week announced the results. Among the survey's findings: most of the African students reported that they had suffered some sort of discrimination from white Americans-and a surprising 63% also said that they had experienced friction with U.S. Negroes...
...cartridge can best be described in this way: It is a device which (ideally) travels through a record's grooves without too much heat and friction, gauges the intricacies of that groove and reports its findings in the form of electrical impulses to the amphlifier, being ever careful not to falsify its observations...
...Walker last week gunned his rocket-powered X-15 to the greatest speed any airplane has ever achieved-an imagination-defying 3.920 m.p.h. In the nose of the X-15, a grapefruit-sized electronic wizard familiarly known as "the Q-ball" gauged the basic critical factors-direction, sideslip, friction-and told Joe Walker that he could safely press for the record. Said Walker, with affection: "The Q-ball is a go-no-go item. Only if she checks...