Word: covetousness
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...read TIME, admire and covet FORTUNE; TIME must be right. Is it? Or does the Doctor speak only in logarithms...
...because of a railway. It is incredible! War with Russia would mean war with other countries and with the United States. We do not want to commit suicide!" What was the possibility of Japan's attacking the U. S.? "Poppycock!" laughed Ambassador Saito. Did Japan covet the Philippines? "I will say that most definitely Japan does not want the Philippines," he replied. "You already have found them expensive." To clear the air of weighty matters, Ambassador Saito ordered another round of highballs. When someone asked him if he were not the world's youngest Ambassador he replied...
Back in Philadelphia, young Bok was presented with an opportunity which any young man might well covet, a chance to enter the publishing House of Curtis and climb quickly to the top. Instead he went to University of Virginia to try a year of law. Its fascination astonished even himself. By the time he finished his course Curtis Bok knew once and for all that the pen attracted him far less than penology, the penitentiary, sociology. Returning to Philadelphia to practice his new profession he threw himself into works of public welfare, became a trustee of Eastern Penitentiary. He even...
...wrest from them any part of their territory would be an impossible task. . . . Their greatest weapon is the economic boycott, and they are also masters at passive resistance. . . . One of the difficulties in Manchuria is that many Chinese have the belief-the obsession I might call it-that we covet Manchuria. . . . We do not. . . . Nor does Japan want any part of China proper. No one but a fool would have any such thought! It is the war lords there who have caused all this trouble. The greedy war lords are one of China's greatest drawbacks...
...Covet anything except rifles...