Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to available information, this is not happening now. In the first place, the names of the contractors read like the social register of U.S. industry: General Electric, Du Pont, Union Carbide and Carbon, Monsanto, Westinghouse, Western Electric, etc. Such outfits are intensely jealous of their reputations and go far beyond formal correctness. In spite of the lack of profit motive (Du Pont gets $1 for building the $1,250,000,000 Savannah River Plant), they are working with enthusiasm, diligence and enterprise. They comb through their organizations to find the best men to put on AEC jobs. They...
...Hollywood parking lot one evening last week, a jealous husband waited for his wife to return from, a drive with another man. After the big Cadillac convertible pulled to a stop, the attendant heard the woman pleading and the man's startled voice: "Don't be silly, Walter. Don't!" Then there were two shots. One bullet from the husband's pistol smashed into the Cadillac's tail fin. The other struck the suspected rival in the groin...
...Widow Wetmore. The year after Dr. Gibson became the spinster's heir, one of his patients died, and the doctor gave the widow, Ann Wetmore, a job as his receptionist. Lizzie Ayres was a bit jealous of Ann, but her fondness for Dr. Gibson did not cool: in 1949 she changed her will, making him the sole executor. In the spring of 1950 Gibson got a divorce, helped by Lizzie's testimony that his wife, from whom he was separated, had deserted him. That month, according to later testimony, he asked an official at Yale medical school...
Some angry, defeated Liberals wanted to read Ramon Magsaysay out of the party. But President Quirino, alternately jealous and proud of Magsaysay, has an avuncular affection for his Secretary of Defense. He has given Magsaysay extra jobs-among them, running the vital Manila Railroad and Philippines Airlines. Magsaysay himself shrugs his shoulders, twists his eloquent brown face into a broad grin and asks: "How can a person get mad because we hold honest elections? All I did was follow religiously the instructions of the President...
Like the gentleman she fundamentally was, Sarah kept her promise, and with no explanations to anybody. Bendrix could only believe that she was tired of him, and had taken another lover. He began to hate her and torture himself with jealous fantasies. When her husband became suspicious of her odd behavior, and ironically turned to Bendrix for help, it was Bendrix who hired a detective to watch her. But Sarah was beyond the scope of detectives. Starting from her hysterical bargain with God, she had gone on through the loneliness of suffering, through the conviction that she was a "bitch...