Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt, strongly backed by tremendous public opinion which denied or relinquished any, and every, entangling interest in the conflict, applied embargoes on munitions of war and warned passengers travelling on belligerent vessels that they did so at their own risk. No effort was spared to avoid any possible friction which might unduly antagonize American opinion. That effort has continued up to the past week when the Ethiopians were forced to evacuate their own capital...
...have seen the same statement made independently at a more recent time that great international crises, such as wars, peace treaties, and other evidences of international amity or friction, follow the period of sunspot activity with some fidelity...
...dual pact with Soviet Russia, which would have the double effect of alienating the Little Entente as well as Germany and Poland. If the Left can come to some agreement with the Right on this issue and abandon the policy of "einkreisung" which has been such a point of friction between the two countries, it is quite possible that France, England and Germany may yet come to some permanent understanding...
...international trade. It is incompatible with the principle of sovereignity, and self-determination, that peoples, whether living in colonies, mandates, or protectorates, be handed over to another power. But it is essential that international trade be restored to a normal basis. Its existing chaotic state is causing continual friction to all nations of whatever size or wealth, and is a potent factor in the armament race now so smoothly under way. It is the easing and ultimate solution of this friction, and not any vague problem based on an artificial and unjustified division between two groups of powers, which...
...Susquehanna River the six-car train had come to a broken rail, careened through the guard rail, spilled sideways across an abandoned canal bed, finally halted with the engine half submerged in the icy river. As the locomotive boiler exploded, the ties on the roadbed burst into flame from friction...