Word: insularly
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...Canada that the Fathers of Confederation had planned would finally be rounded out this week. Neighboring Newfoundland, which had gone its insular, independent way since John Cabot discovered it in 1497, was joining up as a tenth province. In St. John's and in Ottawa, ceremonies would mark...
...East. Selfish and insular Bavaria speaks most clownishly through the separatist Bayernpartei. Its leader, squat, jowly Josef Baumgartner, sums up his creed: "Every German state should be given veto power like that in the U.N." One C.S.U. leader has remarked: "A separatist's happiest dream is somebody to be named Bavarian ambassador in Bern, but the truth is none of them has brains enough to be a vice consul in Venezuela...
...prewar population of some 7,000,000 has now hit the 9,000,000 mark. The new millions, reversing the Teutonic movement that for decades pressed eastwards, come from the once-great pockets of German population in East Europe. Impoverished, rootless, and angry with the world, they present smug, insular Bavaria with a screaming problem of psychological and physical adjustment. They need jobs, housing, security...
...Village, Muñoz had described himself as "God's pamphleteer, [going] with the mobs of hungry men & women towards the great awakening." His relation with his island's straw-hatted jibaros is still pitched to that emotional key, but in eight years as President of the Insular Senate and chief of the ruling Popular Democrats he has also learned some sober facts of Puerto Rican life...
...Independentistas, favoring immediate independence. They are led by Dr. Francisco M. Susoni, who recently quit the Popular Democrats and his job as speaker of the Insular House of Representatives...