Word: insularity
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...coming down from the hills for the Popular Democratic Party's convention. One morning last week, more than 100,000 of them jammed into Sixto Escobar Athletic Park. By the time the last "Viva!" died away, they had nominated 50-year-old Luis Munoz Marin, president of the Insular Senate, as their candidate in the island's first gubernatorial election...
...Judge Waring was one of Charleston's own. He was born of an old and honored family; he married a Charleston girl. He was appointed to the bench January 1942 on the recommendation of the late Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith. Until he was 65, he abided by the insular mores of Charleston's first families and devoted himself to the dusty grandeur of Charleston's traditions...
...Amended the Neutrality Act to give the President authority to arm merchant ships in emergencies. ¶Received a report from Oregon's Guy Cordon, chairman of a Subcommittee on Territories and Insular Affairs, recommending statehood for Hawaii...
...wonderful piece of fun. Bernard Miles and Charles Saunders, who collaborated in writing and directing Pipit, are not quite equal to their idea; and Mr. Miles, who is too young to play the colonel, is not quite up to his role. Now & then the picture, probably the most intensely insular movie the British have yet exported to the U.S., becomes too clumsy or too coy; from beginning to end it is as genteel as rectory crumpets. And though none of the classical Village Types is revealed on the level of high comedy, the picture has considerable charm and humor...
That's an Island. But the veteran of rugged North Africa and Normandy campaigns nearly came a cropper while inspecting Fort Benning, Ga. Enthusiastic Master Sergeant Hugh Cook cornered the Marshal with a tale of the battle for Okinawa. Monty, magnificently insular, looked blank. "That's an island in the Pacific, sir," prompted Lieut. General J. Lawton Collins, Army Public Relations chief. Monty looked relieved...