Word: alienating
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...scare. Two encephalitis deaths were proved, four more suspected. ¶ New U.S. polio cases reported last week totaled 773, up 30% over the week before-and not far behind the 802 tallied in the same week last year. ¶ The German-founded Schering Corp. (run by the Office of Alien Property) became the world's second producer of cortisone,* began distribution of Cortogen, a preparation for eye diseases. ¶ A Navy doctor gave a rule of thumb for judging the prospects of atomic-radiation victims: 1) all who do not vomit should live; 2) those who go on vomiting...
...American institutions," they said, "or our lazy, even abject imitation of them has caused an uncritical acceptance of ideas and assumptions which are alien to our tradition...
...that often even things are not what they seem. So to his many functions he must add another. American or native, he must be an interpreter, not just of language but of mood and manner. As a TIME correspondent, he must give American expression not only to an alien language but to alien thoughts and feelings...
Nine Men in the Cloakroom. In 1940 British and Russian troops occupied Iran. Mossadeq's alien-baiting became more popular than ever. In 1944 he put through a bill forbidding the government to grant an oil concession to anyone without legislative permission. Since this was aimed at the Russians, who were trying to extract an oil concession in northern Iran, the Iranian Communists called Mossadeq a British agent. He never got over the insult...
Some freshwater snails that Old sent back are the first received by the Smithsonian since a shipment by a German collector in the 1890s. Some of the specimens arrived alive, making it possible to study their anatomy for the first time, and they have found Washington's alien climate so attractive that they have already begun to reproduce themselves. Old's prize find: a stream-bed that was paved with Semisulcospira amurensis, a carrier of the lung-fluke larva which causes a disease with symptoms often confused with those of tuberculosis...