Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truman to get congressional approval before sending any more than the first four divisions to Europe. Behind the move was the fine hand of Virginia's Harry Byrd, as bitter a foe of Harry Truman as any Republican, and as jealous, too, of the prerogatives of Congress. The Republicans swung in happily behind. "Too long have we permitted the executive branch to sound the tuning fork," declared Republican Robert C. Hendrickson of New Jersey...
...history, French moviemakers have put together a masterly picture. Subtly but forcefully, with compassion, humor and a spirituality that never grows sanctimonious, it explores the struggle within the layman-priest (Pierre Fresnay) and the clash between the impulsive religious ardor of the islanders and the authority of a church jealous of its sacred functions...
Willing to help but reluctant to sacrifice, eager to be consulted but jealous of their dignity (one foreign minister was incensed when the State Department furnished him a 1950 black Chrysler sedan instead of a Cadillac), the Latin Americans made it clear to the U.S. that they had little desire to make any major military contributions to "your...
...Vote for the Stupidest." Haunted by the fear of both Bonaparte and Bourbon restorations, the Frenchmen who reconstituted the Republic after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 reduced the powers of the President to almost honorary dimensions. Thereafter, the jealous deputies usually selected as President the kind of man who would not try to broaden the scope...
Unlike the American, says Miller, the university-educated European is fiercely jealous of his position. Whether the university man is French or Dutch or Swiss, he is basically the same. "Each university does cling proudly and even fiercely to its distinguishing 'tradition'-and yet education on the Continent, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, is standardized ... I am forced to declare that there are respects in which the Continental method has become a hindrance to the Continent's survival. It is, in short, fossilized...