Word: jealous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Chicago friends Angelica Andrews, 13, and Emily Jacobson Ranalli, 12, that kind of attention is such a source of pride that the girls are willing to use their real names. Says Angelica: "The boys tease me. They ask me, 'Have you had plastic surgery?' My friends get kind of jealous." Emily, giggling, says, "I've been mistaken for 17." But even they see a downside to looking a half-decade older than they really are. "Life gets harder and harder when you're developed," admits Angelica. "Boys walk up and hit your butt. They won't stay away. They...
...kept their chins forward and their chests out, as whispers about performance-enhancing drugs accompanied each milestone. "I had a really rough time with the accusations," said De Bruijn, who won the 50-m and 100-m freestyle events and the 100-m butterfly and suggested other swimmers were jealous of her achievements. There was no rush of congratulations from her rivals last week. "If you get a world record, they just want to chop your head off," said De Bruijn. U.S. veteran Jenny Thompson thought it was sad when "everyone who does well gets questioned" about drugs...
...creation some 90 years ago in response to a dire financial crisis. But the U.S. does not have an oil equivalent of Alan Greenspan, an appointed official working very closely from an established charter. Venezuela has an oil minister - he's president of OPEC right now. Maybe Clinton is jealous, because the U.S. apparently has just appointed one now, just in time for the cartel's meeting next week...
...wave band Wire claimed the riff in Connection was lifted from Wire's late-'70s song Three Girl Rumba and threatened a lawsuit (the affair was settled out of court). And there were the usual rock woes. Rumors spread that Frischmann was addicted to heroin and that Albarn was jealous because his girlfriend's band was having more success than...
...iron to get stronger, especially in his forearms; that it would take months to groove the new swing; that his tournament performance would get worse before it got better. Both men were aware of how such an apparent slump would be depicted by some golf commentators and fellow pros jealous of Woods' early success and fame. The Masters was a fluke, they would say; Woods was a flash in the pan. But Woods didn't hesitate. He and Harmon went to work in a kaizen sequence of 1) pounding hundreds of practice balls, 2) reviewing tapes of the swing...