Word: insularly
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...able spokesman of Puerto Rico's problems. He was a popular man at home. He was a close friend of the island's most powerful politician, Luis Muñoz Marin; with him Piñero had founded the now dominant Popular Democratic Party in 1938. The Insular Legislature had recommended his appointment...
Fortas tried once before to join the Army, to chuck his many jobs as Under Secretary (guiding Ickes' power policy, handling U.S. insular possessions, helping supervise the coal industry, tussling with petroleum reserves). President Roosevelt had refused to accept his resignation, wrote: "You can best serve your country by continuing to do your job." Last week, unwilling to wait until his draft deferment expires on Nov. 15, Fortas resigned again, saying "I feel most deeply . . . that I should not be denied the privilege of joining the fighting forces." This time, Secretary Ickes accepted the resignation, but commented, "You have...
Ever since his birth in the Evening Standard cartoons of David Low, Colonel Blimp has been the gaseous, walrus-mustached symbol of British muddling. Blimp paid reluctant attention to earth-shaking events as he waddled to the insular comfort of his club to find good sherry and claret, a deep leather chair and reassuring words in the London Times. When he spoke it was in gouty grunts, and his favorite words were "Gad, Sir." Usually this expressed his disapproval of anything which might change the way things had always been done and, by Gad, Sir, always would be done. Britons...
...teetotalers, and to some other gloomy characters, the British pub is a sink of iniquity, the repository of much that is ingrown, insular and debilitating in British life. For sober students of drinking and human nature, it is the haven and repository of much that is good and warm ing in British life, an important and perhaps the most democratic institution in Britain...
...current sentiment had begun when Vag heard the band play "Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind" at the Kirkland House party. He pictured himself in an insular jungle, and it almost seemed that that were real and Harvard the daydream. But he was glad that he was too busy looking forward to the approaching service to let nostalgia get the better...