Word: frictioned
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...meeting was convened, the Frenchmen said, so they could deny press reports that there was friction between them. That settled, General Navarre lost no time getting into a defense of his 1953-54 campaign. "We have not been surprised," said Navarre. "The situation is just what we expected ..." The Communists had not taken their current major objectives: the rice-rich Red River Delta around Hanoi, and the encircled French strongpoint at Dienbienphu. And their heavily headlined offensive against Luang Prabang, the royal Laotian capital, "may be considered blocked...
Coles pointed out that when the Key did not fulfill these duties, friction inevitably arose between the H.A.A., the managers, and the visiting players. "We assume these responsibilities, and when we don't carry them out, its rough on the H.A.A., the teams and their managers," he said...
...House committee chairmen are meeting to try to work out more satisfactory plans for future Weekends with the Key. Eliot House committee chairman Daniel Steiner '54 said, "There is no friction between the Key and the House committee representatives. We are trying to iron out unsatisfactory arrangements...
Representatives of the Union emphasized that they were attempting to carryout the shift with as little hardship and friction as possible...
...interests of keeping "religious friction at a minimum," the Quebec Board of Censors barred the movie Martin Luther from public exhibition in that province. "We barred the English film Oliver Twist," explained Board Chairman Alexis Gagnon, "because Jewish groups protested that the portrayal of Fagin the Jew might lead people to think of all Jews as being malicious . . . Some Catholics might not get excited about [Martin Luther]. But there are those who might...