Word: alienating
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...young ex-bomber pilot who cast off his citizenship in 1948 to become a "citizen of the world" got a chill welcome home from the Government. Davis, who re-entered the U.S. last April under the French quota as "a stateless person," will be treated like any other alien married to an American, the Justice Department said-meaning that he will have to wait two years before he can get his citizenship...
...that this is an especially terrible war. It is so for reasons which every American must understand if we are to grasp the extent, the nature and the immense complexities of our problem in Asia. Much of this war is alien to the American tradition and shocking to the American mind. For our men in Korea are waging this war as they are forced to wage it and as they will be forced to wage any war against the Communists anywhere in Asia...
...from Japan, a woman from Germany exclaimed: "I just couldn't pray properly before such a thing!" Since a Japanese might have equal difficulty at a Gothic altar rail, the objection pretty well illustrated Monsignor Costantini's point: that native art may serve faith better than the alien kind...
...message was that "the Russian language has remained in the main the same as it was before the October upheaval . . . Language is created for the purpose of serving society as a whole . . . [Language] is all-national." Philologist Stalin savagely denounced Marr as a vulgarizer of Marxism, called him arrogant, alien, and demanded the liquidation of the "Marr clique" as saboteurs...
Concludes Schmidt: "The people of Czechoslovakia today stand as prisoners in a Communist camp. Their sense of national identity and honor, their sense of the value of political freedom and their revulsion against alien rule is strong. But not so strong as the instinct for individual self-preservation ... On the whole, their position is about what it was under the Nazis...