Word: alien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible and it is not right," he" declared, "to neglect a people's hopes because the ocean is vast, or their culture is alien, or their language may be strange, or their race different, or their skin another color. The economic net work of this shrinking globe is too intertwined, the political order of continents is too involved with one another, the threat of common disaster is too real for all human beings to say of Asia-or any other continent-'Yours is another sphere...
Sprinter Sam Robinson, the team's number-one dash man, was out for the season. Sophomore Dave McKelvey couldn't run the 600-yard dash until the Heptagonals, the last meet of the indoor season. And two of the top-distance runners, seniors Dave Alien and Walt Hewlett, were knocked out by a thesis and strained muscles, respectively. The two chief men in the weight events, sophomores Ron Wilson and Carter Lord, were promising but untried...
Longing for Belonging. Their rejection sticks deep in Franco's throat. It wounds that most Spanish of all human feelings, pride. As long as his borders were closed, the Spaniard could turn his back on the alien world and tell him self he was better off without it. But Spain now wants back in, and all the way. Psychologically, it needs recognition, acceptance, applause...
Shortly after the murders, Capote was propelled to Kansas, a region that is as alien to his spirit as Mars, by the scarcely original premise that any truth exhaustively explored can furnish better story material than fiction. He dogged the story off and on for six years. A diminutive, eccentric and lisping presence on Midwest territory, whose citizens at first scarcely knew what to make of him, Capote commanded the attention and ultimately the respect of everyone he approached, including the killers. His memory stored scores of interviews, which he set down later in 6,000 pages of notes...
...usually anonymous international investors-London's Economist tartly calls them "international tax dodgers"-constantly seeking new ventures with which to multiply their new wealth. Still intensely nationalistic in financial matters, European governments discourage outsiders from entering their bond markets by imposing coupon taxes ranging up to 25% on alien bond purchases. American bonds, on the other hand, being tax-free and easily transferable, are snapped up in $10,000 and $20,000 lots by zip-lipped Swiss bankers representing unmentioned clients...