Word: alienating
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That is why Americans can still regard monarchy as an institution profoundly alien to the U.S., and at the same time regard the British monarchy as an institution which performs a function profoundly understood and respected...
...Saigon, after a reporting tour of Indo-China, British Novelist Graham (The End of the Affair) Greene applied for a U.S. visa, ran smack into the clause of the McCarran exclusion act which automatically forbids U.S. entry to any alien who was ever a member of a totalitarian party. Greene's difficulty: during his Oxford days in the early '20s, he joined the Communist Party "as a prank," paid dues for a month before he dropped out, later to become a soul-searching Roman Catholic. In Washington, the State Department turned the Greene case over to the Justice...
...scandals of the Harding Administration was in the Office of Alien Property. For accepting a $50,000 kickback on a World War I claim, OAP Custodian Thomas W. (for Woodnutt) Miller was sent to prison. OAP gradually went out of business, was revived in 1942 as a Justice Department division under Democratic Politico Leo Crowley. Since then it has controlled as much as $500 million worth of alien properties seized in World War II, still manages 39 active companies and assets of nearly $300 million...
Wiley has never thought to mention how he himself got interested in the Office of Alien Property. OAP caught his attention last spring when his brother-in-law unsuccessfully represented the International Silk Guild in a $578,000 claim against the agency. Later, Wiley's interest in OAP was unaccountably heightened by ex-OAP Boss Crowley, now a big railroader in Wiley's home state. Crowley suddenly showed up in Washington to promote a better deal for Ernest Halbach, U.S.-born former president of General Dyestuff, Aniline's marketing subsidiary. Halbach was kept on as a consultant...
...Yorkers alarmed by reports over the weekend that a plague of alien snails had descended upon the Central Park lake, were reassured yesterday by William J. Clench, curator of mollusks, who identified the species as harmless and 100 percent American...