Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have meaning. They are conventional symbols for the spiritual realities we call ideas. Until the recent past, a kind of abiding respect for language kept us from permitting its disintegration through arbitrary combination of its mangled elements. When new words came to life, their birth was superintended by jealous academies of lexicographical midwives . . . Now anything goes...
...last month, when Yoshida was touring the U.S. and Europe, a cabal of jealous Liberal Party members developed a new and promising intrigue: their idea was simply to re-form the conservative movement-without Shigeru Yoshida. Last week these conservatives brought their maneuver into the open, and Yoshida was in the fight of his life...
Fact was that, though his Washington trip had stirred the people, it had miffed the Assembly. Old EDC supporters and "good Europeans" had been counting on U.S. antipathy to help bring Mendes down, and were dismayed when Dulles pronounced him a "superman." Deputies, jealous of their prerogatives, did not like Mendes' advance assurance that France would make it "a point of honor ... to be among the first to ratify" the Paris agreements...
...primitive Indians living in the village of Amecameca at the volcano's base, it is frightening. Centuries ago their ancestors cast human sacrifices into the crater's fiery maw. Today Popocatepetl sleeps, but the Indians of Amecameca are sure that it is still hungry and jealous of its rights...
...Premier Mohammed Ali last week announced a new policy to lure U.S. money to his struggling young (7) country. To an audience of U.S. businessmen in Manhattan, Ali sounded a dramatic new note from Asia, whose newly independent governments, still resentful of colonialism's old wrongs and jealous of their new independence, have made things tough for Western investors. Most have heavily taxed foreign businesses, limited their profits, refused to let even those profits out of the country, and demanded majority control of companies built wholly by foreign money. Western investment was slowly being choked out at the very...