Word: insular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Church the rich monastic properties which Henry VIII had shared out. When the "old" service returned to the parish churches, London was strewn with antipapist pamphlets and broadsheets; men gathered together for armed rebellion. And many an Englishman who had welcomed , a return to the old ways hesitated in insular fear when he saw, on Mary's one hand, the long-absent papal legate and, on the other, her new husband, Prince Philip of Spain...
...High Commissioner of the Pacific Trust Territory (southwest Pacific islands administered by the U.S. as trustee for the United Nations): Frank Elbert Midkiff, 65. Born in Anna, Ill. Midkiff went to Hawaii at 25 to take a job as an English teacher and athletic coach at an insular college, stayed on to become a businessman, school principal. His new bailiwick, scattered over an expanse of ocean wider than the U.S., consists of 2,130 small, rainy, tropical islands with a total area of 687 sq. mi. and a total native population of 58,000. The territory's value...
...Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee wound up its hearings on tide-lands and prepared to send to the Senate floor a bill which would carry out Dwight Eisenhower's campaign promise to give the states ownership of the oil-rich offshore lands lying within their historic boundaries...
...Hawaii Statehood bill was cleared for early passage by the House when it received approval from the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee...
...Hawaiian statehood bill sailed serenely through the House Territories Subcommittee to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, a strong indication that Hawaii would get its flag star, and soon...