Word: friction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Referring to police-student friction, the report stated that "both groups have prejudged each other, and each is ready to do hard battle with the other on sight." But ADL said the police cannot take too much advantage of the students, whom the report called "sufficiently bright and sufficiently well-informed about the law to know how to limit police actions...
Often, however, the student found that his candidate was beaten badly, because the student's hair caused friction by rubbing too many people the wrong way. (Play "I've Got You Under My Skin...
Chase N. Peterson '52, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid and a member of the HSA board, said there was "a fair amount of friction" last year between Burke and Lockwood and the other seniors...
...UNITED on real economic issues, the Democratic coalition can survive racial friction, but party leaders will have to acquire a mighty empathy for their working-class white constituents. In the last decade the Democrats callously shoved the burden of the black social revolution onto this much maligned class, which the Kerner Commission deigned to call racist. The federal government could have shifted the burden a little by creating more low and middle income housing for blacks and whites outside the existing corporate boundaries in the wealthier suburbs. (The suburbs vote Republican.) Instead, the Democrats permitted race to poison the party...
...terrorized most of the German citizenry. Another crowd of black troops descended on a civilian police station in Schweinfurt and forced frightened local officials to release a black G.I. who they claimed had been unjustly arrested. White prisoners beg for transfers from the big Army stockade at Mannheim, where friction between white guards and angry black prisoners has sparked at least three riots...