Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said Apollo 14's skipper, Alan Shepard. He and his fellow travelers were in high spirits and apparently good health, and doctors later discovered that Shepard had actually gained weight (1 Ib.) during his 941,825-mile journey. Indeed, the astronauts' condition-and the fact that no alien organisms had been found on the Apollo 11 and 12 spacecraft-strongly suggested that the lunar travelers' 21-day quarantine is unnecessary; it probably will not be imposed on the next mission...
Charlotte Lichtblau seeks to paint, in her words, "an imaginative vision of subject-man-whether he lives in the city, ancient or modern, in a village-as a creature never fully acclimatized, always an alien spirit even in the most intimate surroundings." Her work is mystical, even iconographical, with bold colors straining toward the fervor of stained glass. A triptych on the death and rebirth of the city captures a corner of the room with a strident assertion of group-hope...
...presented a pair of swans to then-President Arthur da Costa e Silva of Brazil. That is about the only practical use left for the beautiful bird. Once it was considered a great delicacy at the royal table, but, said the Lord Chancellor, it has been "superseded by the alien turkey...
...bigoted upper-class perspective. The hero's generalizations about national character, his sense of the country, the Cuban soul, his generally useless impressions of social events, all run through the film and stand as a description of Cuba which the film nowhere objectively opposes. His oppressive sense of the alien city with its crowds, characteristic of the most hackneyed modern Western fiction, stands unchallenged as a description of Havana under socialism. Progressive film-makers do better than that: take Louis Malle, whose recent Calcutta tries to understand great masses of people instead of shying away from them...
...Taft-Hartley Act. Said Wilson in a speech to Parliament: "We do not believe that we have anything very much to learn from the U.S. in industrial relations matters. Yet we are being asked to vote for a bill which almost exclusively conveys into our law irrelevant and alien provisions from the United States." Nevertheless, the bill was approved by a 44-vote margin-14 more than the Tory majority...