Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Greeks who lived in Western Europe had conceived the notion of throwing off the Turkish yoke and unifying, their country as a sovereign nation. However fashionable in Paris and London, this was an alien idea in Greece, incomprehensible to the wild tribesmen who actually lived there. When unorganized slaughter of Turkish citizens began in 1821, partly as the result of agitation by the expatriates, Greek fighting forces consisted mostly of mutually hostile guerrilla bands. Their chiefs fought, looted, connived, ran away or made peace separately, as they had always done, without regard to Western ideas of patriotism or military strategy...
...duty and took a weapon, there would be no problem." Moslem theology distinguishes between dar-al-Islam (the region already conquered for Allah) and dar-al-Harb (the region of Holy War, still to be conquered). Israel lies in dar-al-Islam and as such is seen as an alien presence in land already belonging to Moslems...
...indeed rackets by which immigrants seek to circumvent the rules. One of the most melancholy is the marriage-for-money, which can cost up to $500. Says New York Immigration Service Director Maurice Kiley: "We've had women in here seven or eight times, each time with a new alien husband and a new assumed name...
...programmed this quick shot so that they could at the very least learn about grain sizes, erosion and other surface conditions near Viking's feet in the event that some catastrophe befalls the craft soon after the landing. Six minutes later, like a wary human set down on alien soil, Viking will look cautiously up from its foot and shoot a panoramic view of its surroundings. An hour after landing, the first historic picture from the surface of Mars should be completed on J.P.L. monitors. It will be followed a half-hour later by the panoramic view, which...
...remain unresolved; the landers may simply be in the wrong places, or organisms may be thriving just a few inches below the deepest excavation of the sampler. Or Martian bugs may simply have chemistry so different from that of terrestrial life that Viking may be unable to recognize the alien processes...