Word: alienating
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...first, it looked as though the ruling might mean the end of the quickie divorce business, at least for Hollywood movie stars and other alien nonresidents. Not necessarily, say Mexican lawyers. So long as the action is unopposed and one of the parties appears in a Mexican court, for even five minutes, divorce will probably be as easily had as ever. What it boiled down to was this: the Ingrid Bergman mail-order model has been temporarily discontinued; but the Faye Emerson while-you-wait type is still available to anyone who will come...
Hartnett replied that Catholic parochial schools were not so alien from the public schools as Blanshard would have people believe. Protestant Professor Edward S. Corwin of Princeton, he said, had declared that the parochial schools are an "indispensable part" of the U.S. educational system and that "all schools, public or parochial, should be treated alike...
...Rumania, said the Cominform Journal, a "verification" purge had cleansed the party of 180,000 "alien class elements, opportunists and Titoite agents...
...paper ballot which lists names but no party affiliations, and drop that ballot into a sealed box. The man he chooses may live and vote in another constituency, but will certainly not be a lord, a member of the clergy, an employe of the government, a lunatic, an alien, or a government contractor...
...such small ways, said FORTUNE, the American system has demonstrated its adaptability to foreign cultures. "It is therefore a model instrument for the reformation of other economies; for far from imposing an alien pattern on them, it is constantly reforming itself from within. Not only will foreign countries modify the American system to suit themselves; they will also inevitably contribute elements of useful reform to the fundamental proposition . . . The American Business Economy is neither a closed nor a fixed system. By its nature it must remain open and changing or perish...