Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unit is chopped to pieces during a Korean war skirmish. The only officer dies, and Poitier takes over, despite a near mutiny by Paul Richards, a race-baiter who calls him "night-fighter." and Alan Ladd, a surly type who has little use for Negroes, and who is also jealous because he had outranked Poitier until a recent demotion...
...protect the Congo!" said Baudouin, and formally proclaimed its independence. But New Premier Patrice Lumumba, jealous of the limelight everyone else was enjoying, took the opportunity to launch a vicious attack on the departing Belgian rulers. "Slavery was imposed on us by force!" he cried, as the King sat shocked and pale. "We have known ironies and insults. We remember the blows that we had to submit to morning, noon and night because we were Negroes!" Deeply offended, King Baudouin was ready to board his plane and return to Brussels forthwith. Only the urging from his ministers persuaded...
...while he wrote, helped add to the slim support he was getting from his mother and from his teaching job at New York University, and above all gave him the sort of encouragement he needed to produce Look Homeward, Angel. Wolfe was an oppressive lover. He was sickly jealous, perhaps fearful that he might be counter-cuckolded by Bernstein, and so boorish that he constantly called her "my Jew" and made such entries in his diary as "Met Jew at 11:00." When he eventually cut himself off from her because he thought that the affair was stifling his career...
...color cameras as TV prop men bring Birnam Wood-root, leaf and branch-to Dunsinane. Along the brooding battlements of Yugoslavia's 12th century Lovrijenac fortress, the ghost of Hamlet's father spurs his son's revenge; deep in Russia, at Tashkent, the jealous Moor strangles the blameless Desdemona. A marble shard's throw from the Parthenon of Sophocles and Euripides, a Greek Shylock pleads, "Hath not a Jew eyes?" -while halfway round the world, black-jeaned Australian troupers tour the outback by bus, with a crown and a sword or two as their props...
...other areas other tribal groups were at loggerheads. In the Congo's western tip, around Leopoldville, Kasavubu and his Bakongo supporters refused to sit in the provincial assembly as a minority, decided to set up their own regional legislature. Jealous tribal leaders in the mineral-rich southeast, defeated at the polls, talked of setting up a separate province of their...