Word: alienating
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...Autonomy for subject peoples. ("There is a ferment among many peoples who are now subject to alien rule. That will make durable peace unattainable unless such peoples are satisfied that they can achieve self-rule without passive or active resistance to the now constituted authorities...
...night Blue Network officials stood over these two men during their broadcasts and handed them copies of musty, almost forgotten statutes forbidding "Derogatory remarks concerning members of Congress, the Cabinet, or any Federal agency." The mere reference to such legal atrocities is sufficient to recall vividly the quickly repealed Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 and the notorious redbaiting of the Palmer Raids...
Kaiser engineers also had trouble with Austrian Inventor Fritz Hansgirg, who kicked at changes in his carbo-thermic process. The U.S. took "Herr Doktor" into custody as an enemy alien in December 1941: Permanente barged ahead. To prevent explosions, Kaiser engineers soaked the magnesium dust in oil; to cut costs and save handling they started using petroleum coke (which contains pitch) instead of coke and pitch; to keep the furnaces going they invented new heat-resistant parts...
...teeth of the External Security Law, which the President had signed three weeks ago (TIME, Jan. 18) for the control of enemy alien activity, were immediately bared. The regions of Chile's vital raw materials-copper, nitrate, coal-and her key ports and cities were proclaimed emergency zones. The interests of the Axis Governments were taken over by Spain. Steps were taken to arrange Axis diplomats' departure through Argentina...
...talking to natives. Smith's records are accompanied by booklets so that record-listeners see what they hear. In the field, special service officers hold language lessons for groups of from 10 to 20 men, who hear each set of records a half-dozen times and repeat the alien phrases aloud...