Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marking the delegation's two-week stay in Budapest were incidents of intra-group wrangling and suspicion, during which the majority frequently attempted to silence dissenters from its policy. The delegation also ran into friction with the U. S. Embassy, and one instance of out-and-out crime...
...fuselage, were thick-walled tanks of "lox" (liquid oxygen) and alcohol. Tucked away in odd places, even under his feet, were heavy flasks of nitrogen gas compressed to 4,500 Ibs. a square inch. The windshield (of glass, rather than plastic, so it would not melt from air friction) was too small to give much visibility. From all sides, and above and below, a bristle of controls, dials and warning lights pressed on the pilot's seat...
...time. Because each of the appointees will divide his working hours between his academic specialty and GE, there will be no segregated faculties of specialists on the one hand and general educators on the other. Such segregation has been tried at other schools, generally with two results: intra-faculty friction and decreased efficiency among general education instructors...
Culture's next essential, concludes Eliot, is for "the great majority of human beings [to] go on living in the place in which they were born." Regional habits, dialects, loyalties, eccentricities and faiths all contribute to a national culture by ensuring vital "friction between its parts." In the same way, different national cultures help towards the unity of international culture; men of good will who dream of nothing but ideological and international unanimity are, Eliot warns, culture's worst enemies. In the Eliotian western world, Catholic must continue to debate with Protestant, theist with atheist, class with class...
...growling over it indefinitely. The critic may well argue that Eliot's definition of culture is too personal and too narrow. He may insist that few aristocrats contribute as much to culture as they drain from it-and that the same may be said of poverty, illiteracy, class friction and bigotry. He may even insist, as most people do, that the flexible human race can always be relied on to re-create a new culture even while it is scrapping an old one. But he will get no encouragement from the author of The Waste Land, who has rescued...