Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand million of Asia, lifting up their hands for freedom, had looked to India for leadership. Now, East and West, hope is undermined and confidence destroyed. India's killings, not instigated by any alien force, are more morally burdensome upon Asia's cause than is China...
John Santo, back-of-the-throne boss of the C.I.O.'s powerful Transport Workers Union, sat last week like Gilbert & Sullivan's Baronet of Ruddigore watching the ghostly march of his dead ancestors. In a drive against alien Reds, the Government was trying to prove that alien-born John Santo was a Communist and subject to deportation. As witnesses against him the Government had rounded up a batch of repentant Communists...
Hungarian-born Robert Capa, a friendly enemy alien, was in a tough spot. Hopefully, he yelled back, "Take it easy!" but the trigger-happy G.I., hearing his guttural accent, began to shoot. There was only one thing...
...music halls, 49-year-old Gracie Fields, was a near casualty of the war. When Gracie and her Italian husband, Monty Banks (Mario Bianco), quit England one jump ahead of the Luftwaffe in 1940, the British press and public hooted bitterly. It was only to save Monty, an enemy alien, from pokey, Gracie explained from...
...Special immigration rights to alien fiancees...