Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both Russia and the United States are favorable to early discussion but there is no indication when the matter will come up. It stands No. 7 on the agenda of the political committee, behind three vote item and Russia's pointed questions on the dispositions of allied troops in alien non-enemy countries. All of these are bound to bring about prolonged debate...
...house, which, although outdated now, still gets you anywhere (even into Gandhi's untouchables colony) and proves helpful during riots. In Buenos Aires, each government and municipal department has its own special pass for admittance. Great Britain, on the other hand, requires only two cards (national identity and alien registration) to work there...
Last week organized, khaki-shirted Columbians staged a meeting in a downtown Atlanta hall. While a tinny phonograph blared martial music, Columbians stamped up & down, looking baleful and clenching raised fists. Secretary Loomis, in a crew haircut, excoriated Jews, Negroes and the "alien element." President Burke, speaking with an affected English accent, presented a "medal of honor" to 17-year-old James Childers, just released on bail for allegedly blackjacking a Negro...
...isolationist renown, it has sought in the November elections to keep out of office "Quislings" who "pretend to be friends to all, particularly the working man, but actually take orders from, or collaborate with those enemies of our government." This offhand indictment of all who look red or alien foreshadows a resurgence of nineteenth century foreign policy...
...once more a director of corporations, he makes weekly trips to New York but, like many a rock-ribbed Bostonian, so arranges things that he does not have to stay in the alien city overnight...