Word: alienating
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After Twelve Years. But time had worked for TVA. In twelve years it had become one of the wonders of the New World, and a pride of the South. In the beginning it had been something from outside, alien: a plan for dams, turbines, reforestation, agricultural improvement, and who knew what else, flung like a Technocrat's nightmare across the sacred boundaries of seven states. Dave Lilienthal was simply another of Felix Frankfurter's young men from the Harvard Law School, a New Deal wonder boy who had fought utility companies. But as the dams rose...
Fritz Kuhn, ex-fiihrer of the German-American Bund, interned by the U.S. as an enemy alien since his parole from a two and a half-to-five-year prison sentence (for stealing Bund funds), was ordered deported to Germany. Naturalized in 1934, his citizenship was canceled in 1943 (he took the oath of allegiance "with mental reservations...
Slowly, as they came to bloody grips with their exotic enemy, Americans were beginning to realize that to the Japanese mind (an entity utterly alien to them in culture and almost as uncontemporary with them as Neanderthal man), the Emperor Hirohito was Japan. In him was embodied the total enemy. He was the Japanese national mind with all its paradoxes-reeking savagery and sensitivity to beauty, frantic fanaticism and patient obedience to authority, brittle rituals and gross vices, habitual discipline and berserk outbursts, obsession with its divine mission and sudden obsession with worldly power...
Gift of Tongues. Everywhere waiters, clerks and plain citizens who could speak foreign languages were suddenly popular. The Yellow Cab company announced that it had 70 drivers capable of conversing in alien tongues, including Assyrian. Correspondents would be offered every help in the way of workrooms, telegraph service, reference material-even a volunteer corps of ex-newspapermen ready and anxious to substitute as rewrite men for correspondents bowled over by the bottle. The city was prepared to offer them plenty of entertainment-cocktail parties, ferry and airplane rides, press cards good for squaring minor infractions...
...Harry Bridges, estranged wife of San Francisco's lanky longshoremen's boss (whose deportation as an alien Communist is awaiting U.S. Supreme Court review), demanded $450 a month temporary alimony, pending settlement of their divorce suit. Her plea to the court: she needed that much to support herself "in a style and manner fitting a wife of a prominent union official...