Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reserve of 4,000,000 trained or partially trained men, but they have virtually no equipment. The British army is underpaid, but so far the Labor government has not been able to bring itself to grant a pay raise which would spur enlistments-it might make trade unionists jealous...
...garrison town, Lucien falls in love with a great-eyed, high-minded young widow of noble birth named Bathilde de Chasteller. Bathilde soon loves him too, but is too proud to fall into the arms which Lucien is too shy to open. At the end, a rabble of nobility, jealous of Lucien's success with the wealthy widow they want for themselves, conspires to mount a gruesome charade. It convinces Lucien that his innocent lady love has had an illegitimate child by another man. Heartbroken, he rushes back to Paris, utterly unaware that he has been japed...
...theory was that a jealous rival for her husband's affections had spread false rumors about her. The House Judiciary Committee fumed when the Justice Department refused to tell its side of the story. At the committee's angry urging, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill to let Ellen Knauff enter the country...
...monopolistic, aggressive state within the state, claiming 6,500,000 members and another 5,000,000 affiliates, using the general strike as a political bludgeon against the government. CGIL's boss was Communist Bigwig Giuseppe di Vittorio, who ran the show with a strong arm and a jealous eye for any non-Communist challenge to his power...
...West'chester County bedroom for Manhattan, suburban Scarsdale (pop. 14,500) is fiercely jealous of its upper-middlebrow status. Its streets curve and are often called lanes; it scorns the row house. Even the ugliest of its houses have what real-estate agents like to call "character...