Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful Chinese community, numbering about 2,500,000 and controlling much of the Indonesian economy, was sure that Sukarno's drastic measures were directed against it. The public seemed to like the idea of soaking the rich and the alien, while leading newspapers agreed that at least something drastic had to be done. But as business, with no capital to operate, ground to a standstill, the first reaction to Sukarno's bold move was stagnation and frustration...
When diehards denounced Dr. Antonakaki for bringing in "alien American influence," she retorted: "Heraclitus [circa 500 B.C.] was the first pragmatist," and he believed that the educator "establishes the productive relation of knowledge to life." She put her theories to the pragmatic test by founding a school in Piraeus where for three years orphan boys who had failed their entrance exams for the old-style classical high schools got the new, "harmonized" course of studies. When her students did better on their physics exams after three years than the traditionally educated students did after six, government officials were impressed. Last...
Feeling its widening independence, Canada asked the King to stop conferring hereditary titles on its citizens, because "it seemed alien to the life of Canada."† Today, a Canadian who hopes to be ennobled must live in Britain, as does Ontario-born Lord Beaverbrook. Canada began to issue passports, changed "subjects" to "citizens," stopped sending appeals from its Supreme Court to Britain's Privy Council...
...hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my jamiliar friends have forgotten me . . . I am an alien in their sight. I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. My breath is strange to my wife...
Died. Charles Alien Ward, 72, two-fisted Minnesota advertising executive (president of St. Paul's Brown & Bige-low); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An adventurer in his youth. Ward roamed the waterfronts in China, prospected for gold in Alaska, ended up in Leavenworth in 1919 on a narcotics conviction. His cellmate turned out to be H. H. Bigelow. then the penny-pinching president of Brown & Bigelow, in prison for income tax evasion. After both were freed, Bigelow offered Ward a job. helped him rise through the ranks of Brown & Bigelow. Ward took over the company...