Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warfare in the Army when tanks were noisy nuisances, but fell victim to ill health just after the Armored Force was organized under his command last year. Most of General Chaffee's key subordinates are also ex-cavalrymen who have suspected and bitterly opposed an attempt by the jealous Infantry to get control of the Armored Force. As a horse artilleryman who has recently commanded an Infantry division, General Devers is a logical choice to quash such rivalries, weld tank, infantry and artillery units which make up the Armored Force into an effective fighting team...
When the Board was created, greatest fear was that Secretary of Labor Perkins, jealous of her prerogatives, would not certify enough labor disputes to the Board to keep it busy. She was criticized for hanging on too long to the Allis-Chalmers fracas, the coal dispute, others. Whether Madam Perkins listened to these criticisms or not, she soon changed her ways, fell into the ways of other mothers. When the children started wrangling in the great industrial backyard, she did what she could with the smaller ones, but told the Board about the big ones and held her ears while...
...Alice, she will not be jealous...
Significance of this action was far greater than the average U.S. citizen realized. In its efforts to get a common foreign policy with Latin America the U.S. has been hampered by Latin America's jealously guarded sense of independence. Latin-American countries will not commit themselves in advance to follow U.S. policy; and the U.S., jealous in turn of its recently acquired reputation for respecting the Latin-American countries' independence, will not ask them to. Hence the U.S. had not known how far Latin America would go in following the new activist U.S. policy. Last week it found...
...through a log. He studied Canada's lagging war effort, submitted a vast reorganization plan to Clarence D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply. But his methods were too direct; before his plan went through, he was eased out. Minister Howe said Mac Millan had been "sabotaged" by jealous politicians, that whenever the Government decided to give him a freer hand, Lumberman MacMillan would come back. Last week, when he did, most agreed that this time the buzz saw would have...