Word: envious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marichal said the Spanish government was too cautious to intervene militarily in Portugal, but it might increase repression within its own nation to dampen liberal sentiment. At the same time, the Spanish people might become "envious" of Portugal and seek similar changes in their own society, he added...
...Lakers in exchange for McMillian. Subsequently, McAdoo blossomed into a topflight, mobile center. Heard, also picked up in a trade, gave the Braves the third member of a whippet-quick front line. Yet Donovan was still not satisfied. In January, "the basketball robber," as Donovan is called by envious competitors, traded for Marin and Matt Goukas...
...descended and tethered the team, and his spirit mollified by the rebuke administered and laved with the beatitude of having gained his own way, Simon paused and examined the motor car with curiosity and no little superciliousness tinged faintly with envious awe, and spoke affably with its conductor...
...into space, Jack Lousma was equally impressed: "There's nothing except a bit of light reflecting off the solar panels, a few stars and a half-moon." Both astronauts were outside Skylab, finally taking their long-postponed space walk. From inside the spaceship, Skylab Commander Al Bean sounded envious. "Well, you will surely remember this day for a long time," he said. Indeed they would. Before Garriott and Lousma re-entered the orbital laboratory last week, they had spent some 6½ hours outside-nearly doubling the endurance record for a space walk set only two months...
...Envious East Europeans. Despite his repressive rule, Ulbricht accomplished much for which East Germans must be grateful. After the 1953 uprising, he directed the economy to produce more consumer goods. He recruited thousands of engineers and young technicians to manage the economy, encouraging them to use the most modern techniques and equipment. Today this "computer Communism," as other East Europeans enviously call it, has thrust the G.D.R. into the ranks of the world's top ten industrial nations. Its well-stocked supermarkets, the ready availability of many consumer goods such as refrigerators and television sets, and its modern housing...