Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known as the United States criminal code. Now 13 years old, the criminal code reform effort has produced not one new law. Which is probably a very good thing. The code reform rubric has covered three of the most repressive bills to have been considered by Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts...
Although he is often harsh on him self, Spender seems to have been less consistently wrong than fairminded. He was generous in praise of Yeats, Eliot and Pound, whose work had political leanings alien to his own: "The reactionaries never thought that they should put their art at the service of the ideology of the authoritarian fascistic leaders, in the way that many leftists thought that they should put theirs at the service of Marxism and of the political bureaux which laid down the Communist Party lines...
Both students and administrators are concerned about an alien odor that has plagued the room for almost two weeks...
Concerned about the ever increasing numbers of illegals pouring into the U.S., Jimmy Carter has proposed an unorthodox solution: an amnesty for any undocumented alien who arrived in the U.S. before 1970 and could prove it. Those who arrived after that date would be granted five-year temporary residence status, and at the end of that time would be asked to leave. A number of Congressmen object to leave. A number of Congressmen object to Carter's policy on the grounds that it is unworkable, or even undesirable, and have stalled it in the Senate Immigration Subcommittee of the Judiciary...
...Funk, based on an old wino Williams once saw in San Francisco, always appears at the end of the show. Clicking his gums and speaking in a raspy high-pitched voice, the old codger explains he used to be a stand-up comedian with a television series about an alien ?"of course that was before the real aliens landed." Now he wonders if anyone in the audience remembers World War III ?"all 45 minutes...