Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most turn-sensing purposes, gyros work well enough, but they have serious faults. Neither the bearings on which they spin nor the gimbals on which they are suspended can be made entirely frictionless, and friction hurts their accuracy. So designers have longed for a turn-sensing instrument with no friction-plagued parts...
Today, after a year of Papagos' government, none of the gallant gentlemen concerned will admit the slightest friction between themselves and Frederika. Peurifoy and Grady have only the highest praise for her. The feud between the Marshal and the Queen, which never got far beyond the cafes of Athens in any case. seems to have been tacitly forgotten by everyone concerned...
There are many reasons, he explained, why his is a gradualist Administration. The Republican Party is divided up into different kinds,of thinking, said the President; you have differences, so trouble develops. His job is not to create friction, not to accentuate differences, but to bring people together. This takes time...
Benelux's international trade is now the biggest on the Continent, though its population (20 million) is smaller than France. Italy or West Germany. Yet there is friction. Postwar politics complicated the unity: Holland lost her colonial empire in Indonesia, Belgium grew rich on hers; the population of Holland increased rapidly, that of Belgium remained fairly static; Holland's constitutional monarchy remained steady, Belgium was uncertain about her King; the Dutch worked for low wages, the Belgians demanded high wages. When cheap Dutch goods flooded the Belgian market, Belgian industrialists complained. Full economic union, due to take place...
...plus 100 zeros). The present trend, says Parade "is assuredly toward the googol," since their new claimed readership is over one billion. Method of figuring it out: "Start with Parade's documented total of regular weekly readers (12,892,000), multiply by 3.2, the corrected coefficient of friction (always present in American homes), multiply that by 3.49 for expansion (especially in hot and humid weather), multiply this by 5.11, the number of wage earners per family, add 58.9% to give a 'guns-and-butter' ratio for 1953 in terms of 1939 dollars, subtract 101, the approximate number...