Word: covet
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Black-marketeers covet it, taxi drivers, dance-hall hostesses and restaurants accept it, and even Communist agents collect it for their own devious purposes. In Japan and Korea, the next best thing to U.S. greenbacks is U.S. military scrip. Although in theory MFC (military payment certificates) can be used only in post exchanges, commissaries and other military establishments, and only by the military or civilian employees of the military, "G.I. money" is considered more valuable than the wobbly Japanese yen or the even wobblier Korean hwan...
...fully under way, Mrs. Penmark knows the answers to these questions, and the shock is more than she can bear. For Rhoda is a born bundle of sweet-miened sin, a youngster of good family and favorable environment who is quite ready to kill others for whatever she may covet...
...snob appeal, it advertised "a serious and timely warning."' The warning: "TREAD LIGHTLY-PROUD FOOT! That great power . . . was not put there to enable a Cadillac to dominate the highway or to dash into the lead when the traffic light turns green . . . If other drivers covet the honors at the stop light-just smile and let them go. They are first away by your courtesy . . . Just be happy and satisfied...
...Patch up the blistering feud between France and Germany over the coal-rich Saar which the French control and the Germans covet...
...Thou shalt not covet thy lay sister's, or fellow minister's house, furniture, car, or whatsoever thy sister may have...