Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about this season. It is hard to understand, however, why he chose an open letter to four publications to castigate to coach who has done his best. It is hard to understand how Fish could have changed from the helping alumnus he seemed in 1948 to the jealous guardian of past Harvard glory that he now claims...
Venus' husband, Vulcan, was a good guy and the god of fire besides, but he was so jealous he couldn't stand to have her out of his sight; his idea of fun for his lovely bride was to have her hang around his forge while he pounded out odd jobs. Anyone but a god would have known that a Venus was bound...
...liquor. For these missteps he paid last week with his life. Entering the 101 Café in Downey, a suburb of Los Angeles, he flashed a driver's license to prove he was 24. He ordered up a couple of beers while the jukebox was grinding out Jealous Heart, danced about, began fooling around the shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right behind bar) told him to clear out. Trying to scare Granillo, Gray pretended to call the cops. "He started coming toward me," said Gray...
Like many a younger child, the University of California at Los Angeles has long been jealous of its big sister at Berkeley, the University of California. Though U.C.L.A. has sprouted into something of an Amazon itself (present enrollment: 14,983), its graduates think it has sometimes been treated like a gangling adolescent. One graduate gripe: though Berkeley has had a law school for years, U.C.L.A. had none...
...friends such as Donna Guillermina, a wandering Spanish aristocrat who died of eating too much burgoo at a political rally. Minor Paul characters are shot by suspicion-crazed alcoholic spinsters, held under the water in bordello bathtubs, driven half-mad by ghostly apparitions, slashed from cheekbone to chin by jealous wives...