Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while Bob McConnell was beaming over Polectron and Promika, politics-an old Aniline bugbear-rose up to plague him. His principal stockholder was scouting around for a new board of directors. The stockholder: Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley, who owns 97% of Aniline. Talk was that the new board chairman would be Manhattan's razor-smart Victor Emanuel, a director of Standard Gas & Electric, of which versatile Leo Crowley is board chairman...
Rommel was now retiring into country beautifully adapted for siege, long prepared for just that. He was retiring into country alien both to his own and to Montgomery's men, who were desert fighters, not mountaineers. And he was retiring with his back to the wall of Europe. His men would fight fiercely here. Instead of another Dunkirk the British might find another Sevastopol as the Germans drew back on Tunis and Bizerte...
Confused Soldier. "Private Breger'' is a wide-eyed, overspectacled, freckled little soldier, clumsy, meek, confused but undismayed. Cartoonist Breger likes to think of "Private Breger" as typical of all the nation's millions of little men, to whom soldiering is alien, but who cheerfully acquiesced when war came. Through Private Breger, Cartoonist Breger translates Army life into civilian terms. One cartoon showed a squad of soldiers being stopped by a game warden, who demanded to see their hunting licenses. Like all artists, Breger has small idiosyncrasies which trade-mark his drawings. He always draws officers with jutting...
...Autonomy for subject peoples. ("There is a ferment among many peoples who are now subject to alien rule. That will make durable peace unattainable unless such peoples are satisfied that they can achieve self-rule without passive or active resistance to the now constituted authorities...
...night Blue Network officials stood over these two men during their broadcasts and handed them copies of musty, almost forgotten statutes forbidding "Derogatory remarks concerning members of Congress, the Cabinet, or any Federal agency." The mere reference to such legal atrocities is sufficient to recall vividly the quickly repealed Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 and the notorious redbaiting of the Palmer Raids...