Word: frictioned
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...Rouge, La., 28 Negro kids broke the color barrier, and Mayor John Chris tian said he was "very well satisfied with the way things turned out." In Tallahassee, Fla., 16-year-old Harold Knowles, one of three Negroes to start classes at Leon High School, said: "I expected some friction, but nothing hap pened." In Savannah, Ga., 25 Negroes entered previously all-white public and parochial high schools, and a white pu pil said later: "We'll be all right if everybody will just leave us alone." In Cambridge, Md., summer-long scene of civil rights strife, 20 Negroes...
...army generals, Cabinet minis ters, and even the President. Though he is often reluctant to go along with her, Diem regularly yields to her when she bursts imperiously into his study, and even allows her to countermand his own orders, because he desperately fears a public display of family friction...
...Where is China?" asked Czar Mikhail Romanov. "Is it rich? What can we lay claim to?" Russian claims (Manchuria, Outer Mongolia, Sinkiang) caused friction for centuries, down to the present...
Despite the numerous chances for disaster in an All Star clash, such as the lack of team co-ordination, personal friction, and super-eagerness on the part of the younger men, the game does have a magical attraction, making it hard for a fan to keep away from the television set. With all that high priced talent around, there are bound to be fireworks of one sort or another...
...rubber-tired, lightweight subway cars run on concrete or wide steel tracks and provide a swifter, far quieter and more cushioned ride for passengers. The friction of the tires allows quicker stops and starts so that trains can keep to faster schedules; on some runs the Métro figures that the extra speed will give it the capacity of five trains for the price of four. The trains are designed so that on existing subway systems they can share the right of way with older trains by straddling the steel rails on their own special track. But Transaco feels...