Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happened to alight. He wrote her passionate letters before she was twelve: "Good night, good night, my tender and delicious love," adding an odd postscript: "Please share with your wonderful mother every thing I have said to you here, which is for her too. I know you are not jealous of her." Marie-Jo wore a wedding band her father had bought her when she was eight; she was dutifully informed when Simenon began sleeping with Teresa, her mother's Italian chambermaid. When Marie-Jo killed herself, she left a request that her ashes be strewn in the garden...
Rauch: You got asked to stay and I didn't and I was so jealous...
...death squads have murdered people not for ideological reasons but for personal ones. In other cases, death squads have no role whatsoever. Rumors occasionally circulate about how this businessman or that official found with EM (for escuadron de la muerte) carved on his chest was actually killed by a jealous husband or business rival. Sometimes the only thing clear is that something unspeakably horrible has happened. In one incident, three soldiers were arrested for raping and killing a young girl in the provincial capital of San Vicente in late 1983. They claimed the victim had been a "subversive," but according...
...complete with patrol road and sweeping arc lights, along the length of the zone's 54-mile border. Workers in the cities, whose $40-a-month wage used to be twice as high as that of the average farmer, must now watch uneducated villagers take home $400 a month. Jealous, or "red-eyed," party cadres vent their resentment against prosperous peasants by resorting to extortion or exploitation...
When she was five, Candy made her first appearance on the radio show, and when she got applause, the jealous Charlie said, "That's enough, folks. That's enough. Let's not let things get out of hand. Goodbye, little girl, get outta here." (The sly title of her book is a modest exaction of vengeance against such abuse from the wooden-headed dummy.) She said her lines perfectly, and she thought her father was pleased. But Bergen was a stiff, inarticulate man who found it nearly impossible to express affection physically or verbally. And Charlie...