Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These policies, characterized by the rebuilding of Germany, will not only heighten friction between the united States and Russia, and move us further down the road to eventual war; it will also cost us the friendship of the peoples of Europe, who will be given every reason to believe the Soviet charges against us," he said...
...record of the 80th Congress is one of Bob Taft's credentials for his candidacy, and he made the most of it. The first Republican Congress since 1931 was organized, he said, "without friction and without Bilbo." With few exceptions, "differences within the party were reconciled in the party interest." Despite criticism from "Communists, New Dealers, the C.I.O. . . . and those modern planners who do not really approve of Congress at all," the 80th passed more important laws than any previous Congress...
...John T. Burwell Jr. of M.I.T. uses bearings made of radioactive steel to investigate the basic facts of friction. He can tell if one hundred-billionth of an ounce of metal is transferred from one bearing surface to another...
...enunciated, not just stability or the ordering of individual wills. Rather it was to harmonize the conflicting interests in society through the force of an organized political structure. "We may think of the task of the legal order," Professor Pound summed up, "as one of precluding friction and eliminating waste; of conserving the goods of existence in order to make them go as far as possible...
...accepted, the British hoped there would be one strong mold to bind the pieces-the Indian Army (present strength: 400,000, with 9,000 Indian officers, 4,000 British officers). The Hindus (56%), Moslems (34%), Sikhs and Christians in its ranks have worked together with minimum friction. In recent communal riots local police proved ineffective, while the Army's Hindu and Moslem troops obeyed orders, often succeeded in checking disturbances. But a purely Moslem army could not be expected to protect Hindu minorities in Pakistan, nor a Hindu army to protect Moslems in Hindustan. That did not bother Jinnah...