Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vanishing American. In Albuquerque, Police Chief Pat O'Grady was mortified when a woman whom he held for investi gation as an alien was found to be a Pueblo squaw...
...this instance, they were Nazi; they might have been Allied. In their wake, a gaunt father bore his hurt child. This was a paesano's burden-and Italy's burden. This was a reminder that while courtiers clung to privilege, politicians wrangle'd and alien soldiery racked the land, a nation of 45,000,000 was in transition, stumbling from Fascismo to a less evil destiny, suffering in its hours of expiation...
...revetments to soften beaches for an amphibious invasion. Even when troops arrived, the defenses were still very hard: Jap resistance to the landings was ferocious, the cost in U.S. lives high. The Marshalls, held by the Japs for a quarter of a century, for years jealously guarded from alien visitors, were an unknown quantity. Involved this week was probably the greatest sea and air force the U.S. has yet concentrated on any Pacific objectives...
...years ago the Navy was a purely aquatic creature with only a casual interest in the landing of men from ships upon an alien shore; the study of amphibious war was largely left to the Marines. But two years ago, confronted with an amphibious enemy and the problems of waging a war thousands of miles from Pearl Harbor, the Navy stirred. "Terrible" Turner, who wears the wings of a Naval aviator, was hurried off to the Solomons to assemble amphibious forces...
Then all of Leningrad listened breathlessly to the music of battle. Like moles the Germans had burrowed deep into the alien earth; now thousands of tons of explosives dug them...