Word: alienating
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...most memorable of moon festivals occurred in the bitter years when Tartar invaders ruled the land. Revolt brewed against them in 1368. To break it, the alien despots posted guards in the foremost Chinese households. When the feast-day came, families gathered and all went as usual-until mooncakes were served. When the feasters broke into the pastries, they found slips of paper with the message: "Kill the Tartars in your household." All rose in mighty unison. The aliens were driven forth and the peace of the Mings descended on China...
...important point about radio to scholarly Mary Agnes Hamilton is the fact that it has "ended isolation. A sense of loneliness, of inhabiting an alien universe ... is the commonest cause of personal misery. It is now being lifted." BBC's often-criticized newscasts, she thinks, are not so bad: "Americans, of course, constantly assail our news service as dull. It is meant, in a sense, to be dull. Anyone who wants it ... lively should listen for a spell to [American] news commentators and 'analysts,' each striving to be more arresting, more dramatic, more charged with a sense...
...down General Aniline & Film Corp., which recently agreed to lease over 3,500 of its basic patents (TIME, March 29), seemed to thrive on the reduced diet. By paring costs and concentrating on fast-selling dyes and photographic equipment, President Jack Frye (who runs G.A.F. for the Office of Alien 'Property) upped half-year sales 25% to $44.439,000, profits more than...
...force and violence." In addition, each of the twelve was indicted individually for membership in "a society, group and assembly of persons who teach and advocate the overthrow and destruction of the United States by force and violence." The jury's weapon was the eight-year-old Smith Alien Registration Act, originally aimed at fifth-columnist aliens.† Its maximum penalty: ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each indictment...
wice in 25 years the Office of Alien Property confiscated the German-owned American Bosch Corp. Once, after World War I, the Germans slyly got it back. Lask week the Government sold the company again, but this time it made sure that no alien would ever again control Bosch. The buyer was Allen & Co., an aggressive Wall Street investment banking house with the reputation of holding on to what it gets...