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...ball for the head of the femur, or thighbone. But even after the introduction of better bone cements eliminated one problem-the tendency of the new head to work loose-the results of the operation were often unsatisfactory. Because body fluids provided inadequate lubrication and even corroded the implants, friction between the ball and its socket caused both to wear...
Factional Friction. The Republican leadership, too, will experience new strains. Now thoroughly outgunned, it faces some factional friction within its own ranks. Arizona's John Rhodes, the minority leader, won comfortably but has been too often absent from his floor duties to suit some colleagues. The third-ranking House leader, John Anderson of Illinois, probably will be challenged by conservatives who resent his sharp attacks on Nixon...
...insight, pretty much like the prick of a needle eliminates balloons. To this end, she doggedly pries apart relationships and scrutinizes the pieces for wear. It turns out that the traits she rebels against in friends often lurk unacknowledged in herself, so that an end to friendships ends external friction, while the sparks smolder inside her. When a printer named Gonzalo friendships ends external friction, while the sparks smolder inside her. When a printer named Gonzalo no longer intimidates her with his violence Nin sees it in herself. She resists the "physical and mental promiscuity" in Henry Miller while they...
...Mack Herron had carried a passport in his younger days, he could have listed his profession as loser. He majored in football at Kansas State, claimed that friction with his coach cost him a nomination for the Heisman Trophy, and quit school minus his degree. Pro offers were paltry, so Herron went to Canada. There he led the Canadian Football League in rushing but failed to awe the Winnipeg police. When they busted him for possession of marijuana, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers fired him. In 1973 he was back home in Chicago selling blue jeans for a living...
...June 10, 1974, Councilwoman Saundra Graham sponsored a City Council resolution whose preamble stated that there is "racial friction" within the Police Department, and that Cambridge has a record of brutality against blacks...