Word: alienating
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Where Shall the U.S. Stand? Said Vandenberg: "There is a line beyond which compromise cannot go. ... But how can we expect our alien friends to know where that line is unless we reestablish the habit of saying only what we mean and meaning every word...
...bodies of Catholic immigrants: foreign-language groups, especially the Germans, demanded a clergy of their own origin and language. A large part of the hierarchy, led by the Irish, considered this a dangerous trend. They knew that Catholicism in the U.S. labored under a widespread suspicion of being an alien creed, that the Church could prosper only by doing its utmost to Americanize the immigrants and adapting its policies to those of the young democracy...
Everybody was inventing something when Mark Twain was writing some of the greatest U.S. fiction ever penned; so Mark, to whom nothing American was alien, was bound to catch the fever. "An inventor is a poet-a true poet!" he cried, when his brother, Orion Clemens, invented a "modest little drilling machine." "To invent. . . shows the presence of the patrician blood of intellect-that 'round & top of sovereignty' which separates its possessor from the common multitude & marks him as one not beholden to the caprices of politics but endowed with greatness in his own right...
...guilty Germany and to declare: 'I am the good, the noble, the just Germany in the white robe; I leave it to you to exterminate the wicked one.' Not a word in all that I have just said about Germany, or tried to indicate, came out of alien, cool, objective knowledge; it is all within me, I have been through...
...Oswald Mosley told the celebrants that the years in prison had not changed his ideas at all. Present fascist tactics are cautious and exploratory. "Alien infiltration," "Socialist bureaucracy," Russia, the U.S. are the targets of propaganda slogans. Later the groups may get together under Sir Oswald, who is finishing a book on matters dear to his heart...