Word: alienating
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...years ago the Navy was a purely aquatic creature with only a casual interest in the landing of men from ships upon an alien shore; the study of amphibious war was largely left to the Marines. But two years ago, confronted with an amphibious enemy and the problems of waging a war thousands of miles from Pearl Harbor, the Navy stirred. "Terrible" Turner, who wears the wings of a Naval aviator, was hurried off to the Solomons to assemble amphibious forces...
Then all of Leningrad listened breathlessly to the music of battle. Like moles the Germans had burrowed deep into the alien earth; now thousands of tons of explosives dug them...
Again Russian hamlets set afire by alien hands glowed in the bluish dusk, and misshapen figures dangled from the gallows. Again the thunder of Red artillery pursued the fleeing men through day & night, and white-painted Stormoviks hopped over the gaunt trees to bomb and strafe...
...analysis of insanity as self-defense: "It may be that the state we call insanity is not always an unalloyed evil. It may take the place of something worse-the wretchedness of a mind not yet dethroned, but subject to the perpetual interference of another mind governed by laws alien and hostile to its own. Insanity may perhaps be the only palliative left to Nature in this extremity...
...Here Ever." The mother lodge (15,000 members) of the Fraternal Order of Eagles voted unanimously in Seattle to deport all U.S. Japanese after the war. So did the Portland Progressive Business Men's Club, and the Oregon State Legion. Hardly anyone ever bothered to distinguish between the alien Japanese, who are deportable, and U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. A battalion of U.S.-born Japs is fighting well in the front line in Italy; another 2,500 Japanese-Americans are elsewhere in the U.S. Army; hundreds serve in Military Intelligence in the South Pacific; 20,000, cleared...