Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parrot, who taught him to like Robert Louis Stevenson and P. G. Wodehouse. As the time for his assumption of power approached (he will be 18 next September) Peter grew away from the influence of his uncle. Between his mother and ambitious Princess Olga there had always been friction, and in 1936 Queen Mother Marie had moved to England...
According to members of the Defense League, full cooperation with the Harvard Liberal Union will be sought. A few members, however, believe that friction will certainly arise over one of the main platforms in H.L.U. foreign policy, which says, "We oppose entry into the present war now in the belief that we can best serve the cause of a stable peace by vigorous economic aid to embattled democracies, and by strengthening our national defenses with the cooperation of all groups...
...Most serious stoppage in defense-industry plants last week was at Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. in Milwaukee, where there has been friction for many years. Fortnight ago, C. I. O. United Auto Workers walked out, tied up an estimated $26,000,000 in defense orders (turbines, shafts, pumps, gun parts). At week's end, the workers were still out, demanding that the company grant a closed shop, higher wages, rehire 1,000 men laid off and pay for time lost in the strike...
...nine days Chinese fought Chinese. Then General Yeh was wounded, taken prisoner. The Generalissimo held him for court-martial. The Fourth Route Army he disbanded. Chou Enlai, Communist emissary to Chiang, suavely announced that there would be no more "friction...
They are caused by high speed planes flying at 15,000 feet. Moisture forms from the plane's exhaust and also from the friction with the air. A fleet of planes would make a blanket of clouds of considerable substance, while individual planes form wisps which grow in size as they drift...