Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trade-some of them, like Shanghai's sprawling textile factories, relatively undamaged by war-would soon be at work. Everywhere outside the cities the largest number of self-respecting farmers in the world would tend their rice paddies, grain fields and vegetable plots, free at last from the alien taskmaster...
Professor Ulich asserted that America has a great contribution to make toward a World Education Organization. But he warned, "we, and the other western nations, must not seek to impose an alien system of education, with a thin intellectual veneer, upon the more backward countries of the world." He emphasized that this applies to the reeducation of Nazi Germany...
...been an administrator, dealing daily with civilian government officials. As the Philippine Commonwealth's Field Marshal, he had closely studied his prospective enemy, and had become the target of America-hating Japs who called him "that leading Japano-phobe." Perhaps most important, he had come to understand alien peoples (in the case of the Filipinos, to love them...
After Twelve Years. But time had worked for TVA. In twelve years it had become one of the wonders of the New World, and a pride of the South. In the beginning it had been something from outside, alien: a plan for dams, turbines, reforestation, agricultural improvement, and who knew what else, flung like a Technocrat's nightmare across the sacred boundaries of seven states. Dave Lilienthal was simply another of Felix Frankfurter's young men from the Harvard Law School, a New Deal wonder boy who had fought utility companies. But as the dams rose...
Fritz Kuhn, ex-fiihrer of the German-American Bund, interned by the U.S. as an enemy alien since his parole from a two and a half-to-five-year prison sentence (for stealing Bund funds), was ordered deported to Germany. Naturalized in 1934, his citizenship was canceled in 1943 (he took the oath of allegiance "with mental reservations...