Word: jealous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when you were three in the downstairs bathroom, the one that guests would use. He did this to my little sister, Lindsey, thank God. At least I was spared that indignity. But he liked to tell a story about how, once Lindsey was born, I was so jealous that one day while he was on the phone in the other room, I moved down the couch - he could see me from where he stood - and tried to pee on top of Lindsey in her carrier. This story humiliated me every time he told it, to the pastor of our church...
...Appiah, have been accused of stealing posters from the Secondary School Program activities office, and the legal action against them will likely ruin their lives. “It’s so great,” said one student, “to see people that I am jealous of having their whole lives destroyed. I hope this gets a lot of attention in the campus and national media...
True, I perceived my summer as inadequate because I was jealous of others’. But my summer seemed even more incomplete as I worried that it satisfied no constructive purpose. The mindless job to attend, the random books to read, the guitar to play—though all in their own way enjoyable, to what end could these tasks improve my future? Oh yes, and of course the beach—how could all my time spent with the surf and sand provide anything beneficial...
...knee fractured by a football tackle. Pointing to a scar on his right hand, he smiles boyishly: "Street boxing." Street boxing? "In college, I was a good boxer," he says, then leans forward, grinning. Well, actually, he confides, there was this girl, you see, and he bumped into her jealous boyfriend: "I got into a street fight with the guy." The grin widens. That's pure Chung: charming, disarmingly frank, with just a touch of self-deprecation...
...back to the 1980s, as well as photos of the two men. At his home in the town of Zenica, the head of the local Bosnian branch of Benevolence, Alen Cosic, denied his former boss Arnaout was a terrorist. He claimed the FBI was fabricating evidence because it was "jealous" of his success. He also said large cash withdrawals without bookkeeping were normal in the aid business. "I can't say Enaam didn't see bin Laden," Cosic said, "but he is a serious guy who dedicated his life to helping people." As for Al-Haramain, the director of European...