Word: clannish
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...label "hillbillies." Lured to Chicago by Northern industry, the newcomers are compressed into slums where squalid conditions, strange customs and limited opportunity seem to lay bare more of the bad than the good in them. Coming from states whose literacy rates are below the national average (exception: Missouri), the clannish, independent migrants show a deep-rooted aversion not only for the law, but also for sanitation, schooling, church and most other alien urban institutions as well. Though police, school, health and social-welfare agencies all agree that these newcomers are their No. 1 problem, few Chicagoans were aware...
...joined the Northern Exposition Shows, "touring Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas. At his "foot-long"' (hot dog) stand, Krassowski not only developed into an authority on carnies, he became a carny-a title conferred only upon those who have been fully accepted by one of the most clannish communities...
...ancestors had helped to found the town of East Bank, had fought against the British to hold it. Now, shorn of both money and influence, the family has one great fear: change. They don't like to see people with foreign names getting rich and powerful. They are clannish to the point of absurdity, persist in thinking that they are the upper crust of East Bank long after most East Bankers have begun to laugh behind their stiff, straight backs...
...people live in clannish poverty in stone houses little better than caves, scratching the barest kind of living from their rocky wheatfields. But last week Ragusa stood as a symbol of new economic hope for Sicily, and for all Italy...
...prospects seemed to have dimmed, and his personal life was none too happy. The Rickover family in Chicago had never been outwardly affectionate. Violent conflicts and bitter resentments were an integral part of its life, but it was close-knit and loyal. Captain Rickover had drifted out of this clannish environment. He did not follow Jewish customs; he did not go to a synagogue; he had married a gentile. At last he wrote a letter to his parents, telling them that he no longer considered himself exclusively Jewish in religion. A later generation might not have taken this too hard...