Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...T.W.A. has been so rough and bitter that friends of Jack Frye thought he would surely look for a nice easy job after he quit as T.W.A.'s president. But this week Frye was elected board chairman of General Aniline & Film Corp., now controlled by the Office of Alien Property Custodian. And G.A.F. is involved in a squabble that makes T.W.A.'s look like a simple game of hopscotch...
This is still a good country. A month in the Britain outside London is enough to convince anybody that there is a lot of vigor and promise left in the people who live the real life of this island and who do its real work. The alien traveler returns to London with a sad feeling that all these confident, energetic, likable Britons whom he has just met don't know what has hit them. But their strength has always been that they never know when they are down,* and maybe that matters more than anything else...
Last week the New York Times uncovered a story that shocked U.S. music lovers. The Office of Alien Property, which seized the U.S. business of Puccini's Italian publishers as enemy property, had sold rights to the music to a Broadway producer, Milton Shubert.* Puccini's heirs and publishers were helpless...
...Hubbs raised 20 generations of Mollies in his aquarium, transferring the stock to La Jolla by airplane in thermos bottles. Never did he find a male, and none of the females produced by heterogeneous mating with alien fish showed any traits inherited from their fathers. Even when he mated a Molly with a male Gambusia (by artificial insemination), her offspring were female. Dr. Hubbs even tried to create artificial male Mollies-with no luck. By putting male hormones in their water, he made some Mollies brighter colored. But they remained Amazon, and did not attempt to be fathers...
...Amazons of Greek mythology were women who killed or drove from their territory all males, including their own male children. Once a year they got together with alien males for a brief visit and procreation...