Word: alienating
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...been organized for the purpose of attacking the Roman Catholic Church or any other. It has been organized to maintain religious liberty . . . We are convinced that there are literally millions of American Roman Catholics who are gravely concerned by policies of the hierarchy to establish here a culture alien to the traditions of a free people...
...storm that blew up lover his political beliefs has subsided. Only a few hours before he was scheduled to give a piano concert in New York Monday night, the Justice Department decided to held him for a hearing, apparently to find out whether he was "an undesirable alien." Gieseking chose to leave the country. His departure has been cheered by the various groups that picketed Carnegie Hall before the scheduled concert, charging that the German artist was a Nazi...
Romantic Gesture. One of the "alien spouses" turned out to be a husband-a displaced Hungarian photographer named Gabor Rona who had married an ex-SPAR named Blossom Bernstein. Then there was Elisabeth Albinus, a pretty German girl whose ex-sergeant boy friend walked out on her two hours after she arrived at Idlewild Airport. Lissome Elisabeth got her picture in the tabloids, received at least one offer of adoption, 50, proposals and a free English course from the Linguaphone Institute of America...
There were few finer catches in the Government's Alien Property net than North American Rayon and American Bemberg Corps. Between them, the onetime partly German-controlled companies made about 8% of all U.S.-made rayon yarn. But North American and Bemberg also proved to be a spiny, troublesome haul. The Dutch Algemeene Kunstziide Unie, N.V. (AKU) complained that the companies really belonged to it. Later the board of directors, representing the minority stockholders, began to complain (TIME, March 8). They wanted the Office of Alien Property to give up its control of the companies...
While J. P. W. lived in the White House, his record was almost unimpeachable. Religious leaders blessed him for refusing to wed the illegitimate daughter of an illegitimate son of an illegitimate nephew of Napoleon, a stand which incidentally showed Wintergreen to be steadfastly against entangling alliances and alien unorthodoxy...