Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic and social transformation, Arkansas owes much to a transplanted Yankee whose surname-connoting vast wealth, liberal Republicanism and cosmopolitan interests-once seemed as alien to the state as fine champagne. Winthrop Rockefeller has not only devoted his time and fortune over the last 13 years to improving the quality of life in Arkansas. He has also succeeded almost singlehanded in renovating its political structure. His electoral victory in November was a historic event: he will become Arkansas' first Republican Governor since...
...seems incredibly distant when the block leader met immigrants at the dock and served as their only real protector and mediator in an alien land, or when immigrants huddled together in specific neighborhoods where they found the old customs, the old language, and relatives or friends to get them jobs. Today the U.S. receives fewer than 300,000 immigrants a year (even so, the rate is higher than that of any other nation in the world), and they still tend to seek out members of their own nationality. But for the most part, they find these in a state...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! A son of the Ould Sod cuts 'through the Irish mist that envelops his boyhood village as he sets out for a metropolis in an alien land. Playwright Brian Friel tells his tale with invention and compassion...
Loved Wife. There, in that alien atmosphere, Kinsey, of Washington and Lee University, faced a prosecution case that seemed overwhelming. On March 27th, he and his auburn-haired wife Peverley, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, had bicycled to rock-strewn Impala hill, two miles from the village of Maswa. Prosecutor Effiwatt told the hushed court that in that lonely spot, Kinsey had taken an iron bar and beaten the young wife he had met and married in December 1964, during their Peace Corps training in the U.S. The assistant medical officer at the local hospital, who had performed...
...battlefield now with honor, "an act of renouncing," he said, that would not "injure [the U.S.'s] pride, interfere with its ideals, or prejudice its interests." After all, France did the same thing in Algeria, he pointed out -but failed to mention that the Algerian war involved no alien aggression like Hanoi's. The U.S. would be all the more advised to quit Viet Nam, he argued, because neither side will ever be able to win a military victory. The only solution, De Gaulle insisted, is the neutralization of all Southeast Asia, guaranteed by the U.S., Russia...