Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lonely, dullwitted, and forever conniving with her disreputable friend Sarah Churchill, had labeled an age with her name and marked some imperial milestones. After Anne, England's next Queen was a demure little German Princess of 18, who stepped out of a life circumscribed by a domineering and jealous mother, to mount the throne and demand for the first time the right to a private bedroom. A half-century later, wide-eyed Victoria had become an aged Empress with drooping jowls, and her Kingdom a true Empire heavy with gold, black with industrial soot, and red with the blood...
...more typical married-woman's view-point was offered by Mrs. Inez Muhleman, a southerner whose husband is at the Business School. "No, my husband isn't jealous," she claimed, "but then he always has something he can hold over me when I catch him eyeing a passing blonde." A check 15 minutes later found Mr. Muhleman standing behind his wife's desk, looking over all comers...
...Filipinos also got most of what they wanted. First and most important, there will be no U.S. installations in large cities, where the services have preempted the best buildings and irritated the Filipinos, who are jealous of their new independence. The Army & Navy will have no prior rights on the Manila waterfront, will take their chance of getting dock space on equal terms with private business...
...starting "state of mind," she did a dance "of possessive and destroying love, a love which feeds upon itself and, when it is overthrown, is fulfilled only in revenge." Actually, the dance spoke for itself, and well: nobody needed program notes to interpret her hard, sure movements of jealous hatred...
...position, for the people of the world have placed their hopes for peace in the United Nations; but for the next few years the U.N. will be playing Goldilocks in a small corner of the stage while the three bears gambol madly in front of the footlights. If the jealous stars should allow their misunderstandings to lead to open violence, their fury would destroy the stage, theater, and all, and little Goldilocks would never have a chance to strut her stuff...