Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flytes of Brideshead were a doomed family. They were Catholics in an alien community. The Flytes' Catholicism could not save them from a doom enjoined by the interaction of their characters on one another and the modern world. But it could save them from dissolution in their doom. That was the real meaning of Brideshead Revisited-that Catholicism was the one force that could still give order and unity to fragmented lives...
...Calhoun took a rat census of several adjoining blocks in Baltimore, and trapped and marked many of the native-son rats. Then he released 112 marked alien rats in the center of the middle block. At once there was social strife. Both native rats and aliens scurried around wildly, invading backyards where none had been seen before. Dogs and humans joined the fray. In the first 18 days there were 31 rat casualties...
...Alien Property. For the second time in 30 years, the Government put up for sale a majority interest in American Bosch Corp., maker of ignition and fuel-injection devices. The German-controlled company was first taken over by the U.S. during World War I and later sold. Somehow it got back into German hands. In 1942 the Office of Alien Property Custodian seized 77% (some 535,000) of its outstanding shares as enemy property. This time the stock will be sold, at competitive bidding, to U.S. citizens only. Any shares that get into the hands of aliens will automatically become...
...committee had tackled a troubling problem of political freedom: how to deal democratically with a group which is dedicated to the destruction of U.S. democracy. The Mundt-Nixon bill proposed an evasive solution. The bill, after labeling the Communist Party an alien conspiracy, did not outlaw the party. But it would...
...frightened citizens of Pennsylvania, he simply concluded that the Unionists were as different from the Confederates as another "race of people." So it seemed, also, to Gettysburg Housewife Sallie Broadhead, as she watched Lee's vanguard outside her house. The Southerners were "a miserable-looking set" of alien monsters with a "traitor's flag" who pranced barefoot to horrible "Southern tunes...