Word: alienating
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...beneficiary need fear that one square mile of his territory will be annexed, no alien secret police will stalk him by day and by night, no occupying army will consume his meagre food, no convoys of prisoners will be deported to Siberia...
...Hubbs raised 20 generations of Mollies in his aquarium, transferring the stock to La Jolla by airplane in thermos bottles. Never did he find a male, and none of the females produced by heterogeneous mating with alien fish showed any traits inherited from their fathers. Even when he mated a Molly with a male Gambusia (by artificial insemination), her offspring were female. Dr. Hubbs even tried to create artificial male Mollies-with no luck. By putting male hormones in their water, he made some Mollies brighter colored. But they remained Amazon, and did not attempt to be fathers...
...Amazons of Greek mythology were women who killed or drove from their territory all males, including their own male children. Once a year they got together with alien males for a brief visit and procreation...
Penman's Progress. Some of the things Japanese unions do would make Tom Girdler scream for John L. Lewis. Japanese labor techniques grew out of the Japanese worker's effort to reconcile the paternalistic structure of Japan's industry with relatively alien class-struggle ideas. The labor-relations adventures of the Pilot Fountain Pen Co. is a microcosm of this effort...
...autobiographies, so this life story by California's Paramhansa Yogananda (a Bengali pseudonym meaning approximately Swami-Bliss-through-Divine-Union) is something of a document. It is not likely to give the uninitiated much insight into India's ancient teachings. It does show exceedingly well how an alien culture may change when transplanted by a businesslike nurseryman from the tough soil of religious asceticism into hothouses of financial wealth and spiritual despair...