Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refusal to ensure a fair trial to persons seeking employment either in the government or in certain areas of private industry. . . Congress could change this if it were not living in a atmosphere of all-pervasive fear. . . the judiciary could, if it chose, find adequate reason for outlawing the alien procedures which are becoming fixtures in the administrative process...
...backdrop for the drama of a family, stripped to its barest elements-man, woman, boy, girl. Their problems are ordinary, but there is no chance for the ordinary relief from them-the distractions and consolations of society. Pierre and Yvonne feel isolated even from each other. The children become alien to them, withdraw into themselves...
...Amid the Alien Corn Sir: I do hope someone tells the visiting Soviet farm delegates about the agricultural subsidies here. It would be just too much to send them away thinking that all this came from untrammeled, unsubsidized free enterprise...
...traditional buildings planned for the new Air Force Academy campus at Colorado Springs. Sensitive to the fact that glass, steel and aluminum were the key materials in Air Force blueprints, Democratic Congressman John Fogarty (onetime president of Rhode Island's Bricklayers Union No.1) roared: "Glass and metal are alien to American monumental design-even to European." Picking up his lead, spokesmen for pressure groups, including the Allied Masonry Council, representing brick, limestone and marble companies and for the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers' International Union of America, charged that the modern academy design was unAmerican, un-Christian and unaesthetic...
...necessary that we talk frankly about the concrete problems which create tension," Eisenhower said. "First is the problem of unifying Germany." Other problems the President stressed: Every nation's fear of international Communism's "alien domination"; the overriding problem of armament and how to ensure that "no frightful surprises" can befall any nation...