Word: friction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...break it downward. The technique has limitations. Forcing the ice down against water resistance reduces the efficiency of even the world's most powerful ice breakers. And broken chunks bob up astern, where they may damage cargo vessels that follow. Often the icebreakers are halted when pressure and friction from trapped floating chunks form a vise along their sides. Now a Canadian inventor, Scott Alexander, 55, has developed a new device that breaks ice upward. The new present seagoing ice plow, called the Alexbow, may well render present-day icebreakers obsolete...
However, the racial friction will be more lasting than the economic loss. The situation of Asians in Kenya was not good, but the British needlessly exacerbated it. The Commonwealth Immigration Act was unnecessary because the British passport only meant security to a majority of Asians. Many of them fully expected to return to India or Pakistan. The younger and more educated hoped to remain in Kenya while they could, then move to Britain or other Commonwealth countries. The Asians who wished to leave are now stateless or at best reluctant residents of Kenya. African animosity is certain to increase...
...between two enemy stones and settle on the bull's-eye. He can also send his stone thundering into the target to scatter enemy stones like tenpins while leaving his own team's untouched. The idea of sweeping is to melt a thin layer of ice by friction, thus making it easier for the stone to slide, and strong-armed broom men can add as much as 12 ft. to a slide...
...Notable Exception. One point of friction has been Sweden's welcome to American G.I. deserters. At last count, 79 U.S. defectors had arrived in the country, where they are taken under the wing of Myrdal's Committee on Viet Nam or the radical leftist Front for National Liberation. Their sponsors see to it that the deserters are provided with housing (usually in student dormitories) and spending money ($16 a week in government welfare pay). They have not, however, been able to make them feel at home. Few of the Americans have been able to learn enough Swedish...
...credit, however small, of the U.S. government that it finally terminated its aid to Duvalier. Friction developed during the dictator's early years when members of the American AID mission--which between 1945 and 1963 poured $105 million into Haiti--often woke to find that their Haitian workers had taken the American trucks to drive to Portau-Prince for one of Papa Doc's military parades...