Word: alienating
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...fine talent had been put to doing evil. By the jury's verdict he was marked as a man who, having dedicated himself to Communism under a warped sense of idealism, had not served it openly, but covertly; a man who, having .once served an alien master, lacked the courage to recant his past, but went on making of his whole life an intricate, calculated...
...Alien Registration Act of June 28, 1940 extends the act of 1918 to "any alien who at any time shall be or shall have been" a member of, or affiliated with a group advocating violent overthrow...
...positive blood (containing the factor) gets into the bloodstream of an Rh-negative woman (whose blood lacks the factor). This may happen either by transfusion or in carrying the child of an Rh-positive father. The woman's Rh-negative blood then develops antibodies to destroy the alien Rh factor. She may transmit these antibodies to her infant's Rh-positive blood, where they attack the red cells and cause acute anemia (erythroblastosis fetalis). In modern practice there is an 80% chance of saving the infant's life promptly after birth, through a dramatic operation: the baby...
...debated his morals, was grateful, but detached, about the whole thing. "I understand the Anglo-American behavior pattern of saving face," he said cheerfully. "Very wise decision, we calls it," said the non-moralistic New York Daily News. "If U.S. citizenship were to be conferred only on alien married people and virgins of both sexes-well, we ask you." The Immigration Service sulked. It announced sturdily that it would continue to apply its "normal Christian standards." Snapped an official: "There is no use to subject the rest of the country, to the moral standards, if any, in New York...
...Hamann showed a surrealist living room with a man sitting beside a radio, reading a newspaper. From his pipe rises a mushroom-shaped atomic cloud. "What is a home?" reads the picture's caption. "An island of peace where the native language is that of affection. But what alien shapes are created by the invasion of newsprint and airwaves...