Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never Again. Uganda's constitution sensibly provides a large measure of local autonomy to Buganda and the three other Bantu kingdoms, and to the ten regional districts, which are equally jealous of their separate identity. Although per capita income averages only $65 a year, Uganda has enjoyed a favorable balance of trade for the past 25 years. But falling world prices for its principal exports-coffee and cotton-have eaten up the accumulated reserves and this year caused a budget deficit of $10 million...
...what they could see. Their trip, which lasted a year, was filled with marvels of scenery and encounters with the Indians. At Fort McKenzie, in what is now Montana, Bodmer made portraits of the Blackfeet who came to trade there. One dawn the Blackfeet were attacked by neighboring tribes, jealous of the Blackfeet's trading privileges. Bodmer sketched the massacre-the best eyewitness scene of an Indian fight ever made-while the prince set down notes: "We were awakened by musket-shot upon which we rose in haste and loaded our fowling pieces with ball...
Died. Elizabeth Ann ("Ma") Duncan. 58, the grey-haired California matron who in 1958 grew so jealous of the 30-year-old nurse married to her son Frank that she paid $335 to have the woman murdered; of asphyxiation (cyanide); in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison. Her 33-year-old son, an owl-eyed Santa Barbara lawyer, fought her case through a lurid trial during which she admitted that she had once been madam of a brothel and had married eleven times. "She was," said Frank, "the best mother a boy ever...
...Corona, Calif., Elizabeth ("Ma ") Duncan, 58, waited in women's prison for transfer to San Quentin, where she was scheduled to die in a gas chamber for being so jealous of the 30-year-old nurse who married her son that she hired two thugs to kill the bride...
Without Help. Since labor is jealous of surrendering any jobs, the Government's intervention does not always work-and sometimes results only in a compromise that prolongs an impossible situation. Thus, neither Continental nor United Air Lines has any problem with a third man. Without Government help, they both withstood strikes from the flight engineers without yielding, have since given engineers pilot training and trimmed their flight crews from four to three...