Word: jealous
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...ombudsman's report suggests, Bradlee has created competitive fiefs on the Post; some staff members don't confide in others, and one who did voice doubts was regarded as "jealous." Police vainly looked for "Jimmy" to give the child medical help. When Washington's black mayor and black police chief concluded that "Jimmy" didn't exist, the Post arrogantly stood by its story. "We went into our Watergate mode," Woodward concedes. "Protect the source and back the reporter...
Unable to confront the fact that her own environment completely lacks the furious romantic grandeur of Wuthering Heights. Manon strikes out restlessly and blindly. She is fierce and jealous in her demands for her mother's love, but when she runs away from home for a day she flees something greater and more upsetting than a simple realization of her mother's independence. At 13, Manon chugalugs beer, puffs cigarettes and inhales pot, but none of these divertissements satisfies her. Indeed, they are completely irrelevant to Manon's dark, seething inner life...
...Junot, the jet-setting playboy, Caroline, 24, rarely makes the scene. Yes, there is the occasional rendezvous with Close Friend Roberto Rossellini, 31, Ingrid Bergman's son. But generally the princess restricts her company to another tall, dark male. He is an Alsatian named Oenix and clearly the jealous type...
...story was a classic one: a jealous woman, a man who done her wrong, a gun, a struggle, and a question of where to put the blame in a blizzard of passion. It happens every day on television, in films, even in real life. But the trial of Jean Harris, 57, accused of murdering Scarsdale Diet Doctor Herman Tarnower, 69, assumed the proportions of a national melodrama. During the three-month trial, as her precious privacy and guarded respectability were stripped away, the pitiably proud former headmistress of Virginia's Madeira School for girls became the centerpiece...
...were to tell you that I burrow in its pages every night before going to sleep, you would think I was merely offering you a hollow compliment. But the fact is, [my husband] gets into bed every night to find me, your book, and my glasses. 'I am jealous but resigned,' he says...