Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radicals here are jealous of McCarthy's quick success in harnessing anti-war support--although they are quick to point out that their protests laid the groundwork for his achievements...
ESTRANGING others by bizarre actions or silent withdrawal, the students became over-whelmingly lonely. Even those who continued to present a normal facade to friends felt increasingly isolated. Two of the Cliffies interviewed said they dated a lot. One said, "I went out so much that other girls were jealous of me. But they didn't know how lonely I was. Once I thought of myself lying asleep and I laughed. I thought, 'Poor girl, nobody cares about you and you're not even awake enough to care about yourself...
Still, L.B.J. is not a man to yield power freely. He has, for instance, flatly rejected the idea of sharing taxes with the states. In so doing, he kept jealous guard over the prime source of a President's domestic strength the federal taxing power...
...commands. Greece's new rulers are country boys, who come from lower middle class or peasant families. "Papadopoulos was the richest of us all," says an officer loyal to the junta, "because his father was a schoolteacher." Papadopoulos & Co. are suspicious of intrigues in the big city, jealous of the rich and resentful of the favors that the Palace passed out to highly placed officers. In the past, any incursion on royal prerogatives met with kingly counterattacks; in recent years two Premiers-Constantine Karamanlis and George Papandreou-lost their jobs for suggesting far less drastic limitations. This time Constantine...
...Jealous Rim Shots. Best of them all, says Simon, was Tommy Dorsey's orchestra. Others may have been more creative, hard-driving or distinctive, but, all around, Dorsey's band "could do more things better than any other." At one time or another, it featured such talents as Drummer Buddy Rich and Trumpeter Bunny Berigan, Singers Frank Sinatra and Jo Stafford, Arrangers Paul Weston and Sy Oliver-and, always, the warm, silken trombone of T.D. himself, from whom Sinatra learned most of what he knows about breathing and phrasing...