Word: frictioned
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Work May Cause Friction...
...Friction leads to abrasion, contusion to concussion, laceration to impalement, dismemberment to disembowelment. We are witness to animals in an arena; and we watch the performance of picadors, banderilleros, and matadors, complete with a climactic, mortal moment-of-truth. The play is, in fact, perhaps best analyzed in terms of the bullfight. I shall spare you this, however, and simply remark that Albee has failed to give his play the aesthetic and artistic from of the bullfight...
...measure of space, if two thermonuclear powers would stand off against each other. In general, we're seeing the great importance of sea power." Another way of putting it was that the Navy's show provided a maximum amount of power with a minimum amount of friction. At all times, Anderson delegated heavy responsibility to his subordinates-most of all to an old friend he called Denny. This was Admiral Robert Lee Dennison, 61, who is both Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic...
Biggest source of friction has always been the Bantu kingdom of Buganda, which has one-fourth of the new country's area, one-third of the population and nearly all the wealth. Under Kabaka (King) Frederick Mutesa II, the 36th monarch of Africa's oldest continuously ruling dynasty, Buganda tried to secede from the Uganda Protectorate in 1961. When the British government firmly refused to permit the creation of a new Katanga in its erstwhile colony, Cambridge-educated King Freddie did an about-face and combined forces with Apollo Milton Obote, who had risen from Nilotic herd...
...goes. The speech gave British Air Marshal Sir Lawrence Darvall an idea: a chain of international schools based on Hahn principles. Sir Lawrence, then head of the Defense College, had often been impressed by the way NATO got men divided by language., history and prejudice to work together without friction...