Word: alien
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When a final U.S. court decision declares an alien subject to extradition, the country that wants him has to remove him from the U.S. within two months, or else the ruling lapses and a whole new proceeding must begin. For P.J., the two-month clock began ticking in mid-June, when the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal. Last week, with the deadline nearing, P.J.'s lawyers tried to delay his departure by taking advantage of his involvement in various unfinished lawsuits. Among P.J.'s down-to-the-deadline legal troubles was a paternity suit brought...
...surprisingly, her hero, Matthew Pryar (Eton and Oxford), contributes some British one-upmanship to the stock drama of poet and pedant. He finds that all is alien corn on the Cobb campus, is daunted to learn that the faculty does not drink and dines on unspiced food at 6:30 p.m. Pryar is one among seven visiting fellows. Each of them is a distinguished specialist in some recondite field, or rather is a monomaniac locked inside an ever-narrowing preoccupation -Andean Spiolus, patristic hagiography among the Slavs, Emily Dickinson or whatever. These learned freaks (the Slavonic specialist is a midget...
...spartan opulence designed as much to save the hotel money as to attract the clients. In countries where there is no previous standard of hotel excellence, Hiltons are oases; in such old cities as Rome, London or Paris, they are apt to seem a little off-key and alien...
...regular Harvard or Radcliffe student, this restriction is irksome. Accustomed to dropping in on interesting lectures or auditing a course steadily, he finds a Harvard with closed doors somewhat strange and alien. The ambitious student from any college, who views the summer months as an ideal time for a relaxed pursuit of a variety of academic interests, finds in the auditing rules substantial financial barriers...
...Chinese still sneer at the Russians as "Big Noses" and consider them as alien as other Westerners. Moreover, the population pressure along the Sino-Soviet border is a constant menace to Moscow; by 1980 there will be 1 billion Chinese. When a British visitor suggested to Khrushchev not long ago that the Chinese masses would eventually explode north into Siberia or south to Australia, Nikita replied grimly: "I'm in favor of Australia...