Word: alienating
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...because they squandered natural resources, dominated the press, formed monopolies, played politics, and advertised breakfast foods in the guise of feminine freshness. This, cried Robey, was indoctrination. It was a condemnation of our "traditional liberties." Our children were being taught "that the American way is wrong, that some alien way is better." Oh shameful indifference toward "those ideals and principles which have distinguished the American way of life from that of other people...
Last year Dean James McCawley Landis of Harvard Law School put alien, unnaturalized C. I. O. Longshoreman Harry Bridges to the legal rack, found that he could not legally be considered a member of the Communist Party. Radical Alien Bridges was therefore not subject to de portation by Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (TIME...
This time he was up against a tougher case. After him this time was not Madam Perkins but Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson. And up Mr. Jackson's sleeve were a couple of snickersnees: 1) a new, detailed FBI report on Bridges; 2) a new law (Alien Registration Act of 1940) making any alien deportable who ever belonged to a party preaching violent overthrow of the U. S. Government. (Dean Landis had to rule only on whether Bridges was a Communist Party member at the time 1938 deportation proceedings against him were begun...
...before A. B. C. is as cruel as that which any previous British Admiral has had to face. All British Admirals have understood the ways of ships, have welcomed conflict with enemy ships. But Sir Andrew is opposed to an alien thing, an unnautical, ugly contraption: the airplane. He himself uses the airplane well, and accomplished his biggest victory, Taranto. with it. But he has not yet fought a decisive fight against it. This is why the long, episodic Battle of the Mediterranean seems more important than all the previous naval battles of history. Sea power itself is challenged...
...other people, to have freedom. . . . India has been ruined economically. . . . Politically, India's status has never been so reduced as under the British regime. . . . Culturally, the system of education has torn us from our moorings. . . . Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly in the presence of an alien army of occupation. . . . We hold it to be a crime against man and God to submit any longer to a rule that has caused this fourfold disaster to our country...