Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of amateur inventors in Washington, Pa. announced that they had finally found the right adhesive combination. Their new tire, which works by friction, seems to give better traction than snow tires based on a gripping action. The tire material, a mixture of rubber and abrasives, feels gritty, like fine sandpaper. Designed for year-round use, it works equally well on snow and ice in winter and on wet, slippery pavements in summer...
...seems that the ''dogfaces' " principal gripes are: 1) impending return to overseas duty; 2) demobilization; 3) civilian friction...
...Patriotic, Avoid Friction." To some, the final insult to Negro pride is the appearance of the European refugee, who is free to vote, eat where he wishes, and attain full citizenship, while the native-born Negro, often of old U.S. stock, must remain a semi outcast...
...villages in which it had never existed before. "Democracy to many," concludes Sterling A. Brown, "seems to be symbolized by this message ... on a bus in South Carolina: 'If the peoples of this country's races do not pull together, Victory is lost. ... Be patriotic. Avoid friction. White passengers will be seated from front to rear; colored passengers from rear to front...
...tide of war surged back across the Pacific and the Navy's theater overlapped into MacArthur's domain, there came the inevitable discovery: MacArthur and the Navy (as wags liked to put it) were really allies. "Bull" Halsey met MacArthur; they found there was no reason for friction - at least, not any more. Chester Nimitz flew down to New Guinea; he and MacArthur conferred. While the Navy struck across the Pacific, through the Gilberts and Marshalls, past Truk and into the Marianas and western Carolines, MacArthur's men got stout naval support...