Word: isolationism
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Donkeys laden with firewood shambled about aimlessly among the crowd in the shabby central square in Mamuras, 19 mi. north of the Albanian capital of Tirana. The townsfolk's timeless talk about rain, marriages and hardship had given way to the excitement of an epochal event: the country's first...
-- After decades of communist isolation, Albania holds its first elections.
This episode leads to the dissolution of the narrator's life. Both Anna and his wife Ingrid leave him, his political career is ruined, and he eventually retires to live in the isolation of a small apartment with no company except for two blown-up color photographs--one of Martyn...
Steven W. Matthysse, an associate professor of psychobiology who is pursuing genetic research related to Kagan's findings, said that Kagan's research is unique in its systematic isolation of variables related to behavioral characteristics.
-- Troops have gone for months without hearing from their families, and most have become depressed by isolation. Some EPWs report that they were forbidden to have portable radios.