Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were minor emergencies on the trip. Once, for example, a small fire started in their overloaded railroad car through friction cause when the wooden floor dragged on the roadbed...
...powered flight through the "thermal thicket." Launched, like the X-1A, from a mother plane, and pushed by a rocket engine designed to give a 16,000-lb. thrust, the slim-nosed, stainless steel X-2 will be used mainly to explore the effects of high speed and air friction on the metals used in aircraft building. In an emergency the capsule-enclosed cockpit can be ejected from the new plane; after it falls by parachute to a safe altitude, the pilot can bail out as if from any more conventional craft and float to earth with his own chute...
Deep desire to improve friction...
...cracked crabs, guinea hen on ham, and strawberries Mary Pickford (coated with pineapple sherbet). "A month ago we were in Vienna," toasted the host, John Foster Dulles. "Tonight we dine in San Francisco. Within the month we will be at Geneva. We can all hope that the sources of friction between us have been reduced by our efforts." The city lay beneath them, glistening myriad lights at night, to the edge of the spreading...
...Where one muscle rubs against another or against some harsh edge of bone, the human body often interposes a bursa. Somewhat like a small collapsed balloon, the bursa has lax walls and a slick lubricated interior surface that equips it to absorb friction. Bursitis is inflammation of one or more of these bearings of the body. It is a common ailment. Nearly all cases are caused by some form of extra wear, tear or injury; usually, the victim is not certain about the specific cause. President Eisenhower does not know exactly what caused his trouble...