Word: insularly
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...billion a year. One of London's most exquisite 18th century houses opened recently as an opulent gambling club. In the past two years, bingo palaces and betting shops have mushroomed throughout the country, which some now call "the windfall state." These days, more than 3,500,000 "insular" Britons go abroad each year-mostly to the Continent, where darts and marmalade and tea at 4:30 are now an accepted part of the rites of summer. Britons are better educated and in better health than ever before-and need pay no doctors' bills...
...England," he declared, "is, in effect, insular, maritime, linked by its trade, its markets and its food supply to the most diverse and often most distant countries." Moreover, he added, it "has very pronounced and unusual customs." Shrugged De Gaulle: "How can England be brought in with such a system...
...government crisis was in their hands to begin with, that they needed only expel the Defense Minister to reassure Germany, the Bundestag, and the foreign press that all was quiet on the Western front. In fact last week's jockeying among party leaders has simply continued to show how insular is Bonn, and how far from reassured the outside world must remain. Nobody has grounds as yet to relax about the shaky state of German democracy...
...supported Britain's membership in the Common Market since the birth of the European movement in 1948 -while Labor is still dithering and doddering over the issue. Said one speaker: British failure to enter the Market "will be a victory for the old against the young, for the insular, the blind and the prejudiced-and for Mr. Khrushchev...
...Hungarian, szigeti means "insular." All too often that precisely describes the life of the professional performing musician--no more extensive than the routine of performance. But Joseph Szigeti's life takes in the whole sea of adventure in and out of music. And his treasure ship is the violin...