Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wedlock. In Detroit, Mrs. Madge J. Williams won a divorce on the charge that her jealous husband bought a padlock soon after they were married, locked her in their bedroom every day before going to work...
...pious advocate of Confucian virtues, Warlord Chiang was also responsible, Gayn claims, for ten years of military bloodshed. Today, Author Gayn believes, Chiang is at once "a ruthless and intolerant man ... a pious Christian ... a canny politician ... a national unifier of the caliber of Bismarck and a petty and jealous political boss . . . consumed by a passion for power...
Said he: "The sooner our soldiers write home and say how lovely the English ladies are, the sooner American dames will get jealous and force the war to a successful conclusion. And then I'll have a chance to go and kill the Japanese...
Best of Both. Ever jealous of Empire, and now equally committed to world association, Churchill hoped for the best. Said he: "I have never conceived that fraternal association with the U.S. would militate in any way against the unity of the British Commonwealth or Empire or breed ill feeling with our great Russian ally. ... I do not think we have to choose this or that. With wisdom, patience, vigor and courage we may get the best of both...
...Stephanos Saraphis, ex-colonel in the Greek Army, led a guerrilla band liquidated last year by the jealous EAM. As an example to other rivals, EAM paraded Saraphis in chains through the Greek hinterland. Then, by some yet unexplained persuasion, Saraphis sold himself as a general to the Leftists. Now he commands, with distinction, a big guerrilla force eyried in the Pindus...