Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...international convention, the U.S. has all rights to exploit the resources of the Continental Shelf. Moreover, federal law empowers the Army to veto potential obstacles to coastal navigation-such as Ray's artificial island. Judge Fulton also speculated that if the U.S. does not control offshore reefs, an alien missile base might conceivably be built on them...
...would be a ghastly mistake to allow it to degenerate into the middle-class art form that classical music is, or into the cliquish limited-audience music that modern jazz became. It is disturbing to see many of the best musicians in America trying to remold rock in an alien jazz and classical music inspired cast...
...Administration, it aroused a horde of critics from among those who favored his other policies, if not the man himself: the young, the black, the intellectuals and those whom Historian Eric Goldman calls metro-Americans-the educated, affluent, growing middle class to whom the Alamo psychology is as alien as a President who thrusts his operation-scarred belly at the public...
CONGRESS is a creature of custom whose membership, unlike that of the executive branch, alters only gradually over the decades. Abrupt reaction is as alien to Capitol Hill as to a three-toed sloth. Yet the divisions and defeats of the Democrats in 1968 were bound to make a heavy mark on the 91st Congress, which assembled last week as a Republican prepared to take over the White House. The Democratic Party, which has ruled Capitol Hill for most of the past 40 years, seemed not only to have lost its old suzerainty over labor, the South and the minority...
...broad seas. It seemed a cruel paradox of the times that man could conquer alien space but could not master...