Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris), were running again. Ex-R.A.F. pilots swarmed into the air-taxi business and got as much as ?50 ($200) for a flight to France (prewar British Airways price: a little over ?4). Britain's passport office was issuing a thousand passports a day, and hundreds of jealous wives wrote in, asking that their husbands' applications be refused; the wives suspected that the bounders merely wanted to visit wartime girl friends on the Continent. The Government did not encourage all this holiday hubbub, either, but for once Britons heeded neither their wives nor their Government. Each week...
Other problems add to the dynamics of the College scene: short-range problems of readjustment and revitalization, long-range one of progress along the path of liberal education. A student body awake to the conflict of forces, jealous of the abandonment of the old, and wary of embracing the new will not find education neglected in the course of the fight--the fight is education...
...possibilities of a simple plot with one lecher, two merry wives, and one jealous husband would not strain the imagination of even the Old Howard's scrip writer. What Shakespeare does with it is refreshing diversion from his weightier masterpieces which stimone's brain and prod one's soul...
...will the Wyatt program get houses up? Will the $600 million subsidies to the building-materials industry relieve the dismal shortage of supplies? Will the building trades unions, traditionally jealous of competition, admit the 1,500,000 new workers necessary to carry out the program? Can the prefabricated housing industry expand from $100 million to $2.5 billion a year, even with Government help? Added to this is the fantastic complexity of building codes, union regulations, price & market agreements, and ancient, self-imposed taboos which hobble the building industry...
...tungsten cartel, and hates Macready's wife-or so he thinks-like poison, for causing the great man to suffer. In the long run, she explains that she has misbehaved with half the men in South America not for the fun of it but purely to make Ford jealous, and that not one of those men, no, not even her husband, has so much as laid a finger on her, except in rage...