Word: frictioned
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...Steed, the foreign editor, but undermined him from the beginning. Northcliffe chivvied Steed with scathing criticisms, forced vacations, veiled threats. Then he genially invited Steed to accompany him on a trip to the U.S. where they both met President Harding and traveled as if there never had been any friction (see cut). When they returned, Northcliffe sent what the staff called a "stink bomb"-a memo charging Steed and his assistants with sins of incompetence and mismanagement...
...committee involved, for it would be too much to expect committees to open wide their doors every time a Council member appeared on the steps of University Hall. Yet the line between importance and triviality is sharp enough, and good faith on each side should ensure a minimum of friction...
...capable of taking co-operative action to aid the dining hall system. For instance, how many are aware that the annual cost of wasted milk has reached five figures? But when rules are imposed without consideration for the tender feelings of the student body, it is inevitable that friction will result in the form of antagonism against the dining halls. By any objective criterion, our dining halls. By any objective criterion, our dining halls are doing a highly satisfactory job; the food here is, after all, unsurpassed by any comparable institution...
Main cause of friction between the drive and the Red Cross was the latter's refusal to believe that the P.B.H. campaign would not more than 1,000 pints during its three days last week. Just before the opening of the drive P.B.H. officials had to go to the regional blood director and pleaded for enough nurses and equipment to blood 1,450 people...
...very tip of the spearhead, cocky, harddriving, but an expert tanker, rides Staff Sergeant Steve Cochran, a Southern mountain boy who speaks as if his mouth were always full of grits and corn pone. The story, makes what it can out of Cochran's constant friction with his men, who are predictably slow to recognize his true worth...