Word: frictioned
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...beginning of the summer, the Summer School Administration expressed concern over the possibility of friction between its students and local youths. Early in July, Dean Baird said he was worried about a mixer across the river in Briggs Cage, because large numbers of girls would have to walk back to their dorms late at night...
...innovations, the plane has so far fallen short of expectations. Test models have weighed too much, and have been burdened with excessive "drag," or in-flight friction resistance. Though not altogether satisfied, the Air Force is prepared to live with its version, designated the F-111A and due to become operational next year. The Navy version, the F-111B, is another matter. The Navy fears that the 35-ton F-111B consumes too much fuel and has insufficient range for "loitering" .(patrolling at slow speed to guard ships), suspects that it will prove too heavy and cumbersome for carrier...
...exhibiting it on a motor-driven turntable. This would no doubt have pleased Duchamp-Villon. "The power of the machine imposes itself on us," he wrote in 1913, "and we can no longer even conceive of humans without it. We are shaken in a strange manner by the rapid friction of beings and things, and we become accustomed to perceive the forces of beings through the very forces enslaved by them." The machinery of war captured the artist. In 1918, he died in a military hospital of blood poisoning contracted in the trenches...
...Erhard is Chancellor, and with some of the Wunder gone out of the Wirtschaft, he has turned toward the kind of planning that he used to say could cause only "friction and disturbance." It still amounts to far less control than the French system, which has government-set production goals, but it is much more than the Erhard of only a few years ago would have tolerated...
There is no single right in a harmonious world, nor are there rights in the Western sense. But there is no alienation, either; in a village culture, everyone is "in." Harmony demands that friction be avoided by elaborate sensitivity for others' feelings, which accounts for the importance of face. Courtesy has an esthetic value in the East that means far more than mere good manners do in Western eyes. Courtesy, in fact, is more of a virtue than honesty-hence the widespread acceptance of bribery and the sense of offended dignity when Westerners rail at the practice...