Word: insular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social breed, they have spearheaded the revolt of the Non-U's (for Non-Upper Class), a petty intelligentsia of teachers, technicians, journalists, veterinary surgeons and welfare officers, characterized (in the words of one critic) by "their long-playing records and their ponytail-haired wives." Drab, insular and irritable, the "new men" suggest that, in the semi-Marxist Welfare State, it is the people who wither away...
Belloc was sent to an English public school, but here again the insular and continental were blended. "They gave us uneatable food and there was bad bullying," Belloc said of Edgbaston Oratory. "Yet I fitted in at last." The oratory's "School Alphabet'' of 1880 shows...
...still more if their NATO allies will agree. More drastically, the Second Tactical Air Force in Germany will be cut in half. Both cuts will be somewhat offset, but not overcome, by supplying the remaining forces with atomic weapons. Aware that all this might appear to Europeans as an insular retreat, Sandys acknowledged that "the frontiers of the free world . . . must be firmly defended on the ground...
...shatters the marine's dreams of spending their lives alone together, "at least until the war ends," in classic insular-paradise fashion by assuring him that, although she hasn't yet taken her final vows, her heart is already given to Christ. But "Allison's luck" in being marooned with a good-looking nun dents his ego only momentarily, for Japs shell the island and land off and on, and the emotional stalemate is overshadowed by a hide-and-seek fight for their lives, which takes all of Mr. Allison's frustrated energies...
...Bringing the insular British to the edge of the European continent has not been easy," admitted handsome Sir David Eccles, president of Britain's Board of Trade. But there he was last week in Paris, and beside him stood Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft, the two most dedicated Europeans in the British Cabinet. "We are an obstinate people, of strong habits," Eccles went on. "After each major war we have retired to our island, licked our wounds and pretended it was a bad dream of no significance. But in Britain we are now ready for the decisive offer...