Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although this will be the Crimson's first appearance in Cambridge, it is not their first home game. BU is actually the host team and will bat in the latter part of the inning. Due to field constructions, BU is playing all its games on alien fields this year. This will be its first Greater Boston League game of the season...
With that he snatched a book bag that was actually lying on the path and thrust it into Biff's arms. Before the bewildered detective had time to say anything, the little alien scurried off into the crowds pouring out of Sever Hall...
...life of writing is hardly enough. The rest of what Author Barnes has written offers little but annoying, calculated imprecisions ("her wide distilling mouth") and somber oboe passages. "No, I don't feel horror," someone says. "Horror must include conflict, and I have none; I am alien to life, I am lost in still water." So, most of the time, is Author Barnes. And even Nightwood suffers from that most irritating offense of difficult writing-the mysterioso effect that hides no mystery, the locked box with nothing...
...government's cease-fire posters featuring a Moslem and European child in friendly embrace and the legend "For our children, peace in Algeria." They also plastered the suburb with insulting placards warning French soldiers: "If you do not evacuate by midnight, you will be considered troops of an alien government." It was considered a piece of typical pied-noir bombast, but at dawn European snipers opened up from rooftops on army patrols. An army truck was ordered to halt by 20 uniformed Europeans. Instead, the driver stepped on the accelerator and the Europeans poured a withering fire into...
Some Western diplomats deduced hopefully that Khrushchev would now press seriously for disarmament, argued that the vast investment needed for his farm program could come only from the Soviet defense budget. However, most Soviet experts agree that Khrushchev cannot afford to gamble with national security or alienate the army, which reportedly is already suspicious of his faith in peaceful coexistence. Khrushchev is inextricably committed to butter as well as guns, sirloin as well as sputniks. He has long since staked his political survival on raising Russian living standards, and last week even declared approvingly that Marxism-Leninism, like U.S. capitalism...