Word: frictional
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...Little Spitfire-Bronx chorus girl into Southampton wife, not without friction...
...Constant Nymph. Playwright Basil Dean had the help of Margaret Kennedy herself in adapting her remarkable novel but the play came out as an episode, never a legend. The footlights, scenery, players and theatre talk, excellent though they are, bury temperaments in personalities. Irony becomes friction. The one character reproduced adequately is old Sanger, who never comes on stage...
...three of the most vexing problems. Professor Dowd analyzes various schemes for the solution of the Negro problem-civil equality, amalgamation, colonization, segregation, creation of a Black Belt Free State-and finds them all insufficient or impossible. He concludes that there is no solution, that there has always been friction where Negroes and Caucasians have lived side by side. The Negro's chance of survival is not as good, biologically or economically, as the Caucasian's. However, both the Negro and the friction will remain for centuries. The friction can be lessened, but not obliterated, by education...
...allow her devotion to scholarship to be subordinated to externals of habit, dress, and thought. I know Harvard men well enough to say that they are gentlemen and are opposed to discourtesy whether in the form of conceit or mistaken loyalty. In other words I believe that the present friction is the result of misunderstanding, misrepresentation and prejudice...
...removal of this friction I would suggest the following...