Word: friction
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...Hansen, now 27, was assigned a flight instructor who routinely made remarks so inappropriate Roseanne would have a hard time brushing them off. Lieut. Larry Meyer called Hansen a "wench," advised her to wear a pink bikini and dye her hair, and turned required discussions, such as one on friction, into running sexual jokes. Hansen let it pass, she says, until one day when he grabbed her by the hair, forced her head down to his groin (a witness says he only saw her head go down as far as Meyer's chest) and said, "this is how I like...
...Friction intensified after last year's parliamentary elections, when Saleh awarded 21 of 31 Cabinet seats to his own party and a fundamentalist group from the North. Two months after the fundamentalist leader demanded the repeal of socialist-sponsored legislation last June, Al-Beidh angrily left San'a for the South and never returned...
Muller is able to ask intelligent questions about Riefenstahl's work because he himself is a director, but this common identity is also the cause of friction between the two. Riefenstahl is still serious about filmmaking, and she is an stubborn as any other director who has an artistic vision. Some of the more amusing parts of the film occur when Muller and Riefenstahl argue about he best way to make certain scenes work...
...rejection came amid rumors that Beys planned to "stir up friction" at this Sunday's meeting, according to an executive board member...
...Yanks, meanwhile, are talking about not playing free agent pickup Luis Polonia every day, which will cause to annoy him, and thus lead to friction on the team...