Word: jealous
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There really is no dispute: both publications are original. Hoot Owl appears to be a bit jealous-because it has been struggling for five hard months with next to no recognition, while Kids gained national attention in only one month. Its first guest editors, Candace Lowe, 12, and Marc Alonso, 10, have already appeared on the David Frost Show...
...vowed, his work "is going to reflect the society around me"-particularly the new family structures. "I don't think I could live in a commune myself, or even what they call a 'triangular' marriage-you know, one guy with two chicks. I'm too jealous by nature." As for allotting his time, he declared: "I've done 90% of the work I'm going to do. Mostly I'm just going to take sea trips...
...Christina Milner's way of financing her graduate work in anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. But she soon found that her new colleagues were more interesting than the primate fossils she was supposed to be studying. Propositioned by a "player" and then threatened by his jealous "ho" (for whore), Tiger Red learned that the bar was a hangout for players and hos. She enlisted the help of her anthropologist husband, Richard, as fellow researcher and began making friends with the bar habitues. As they struck up conversations and collected taped interviews, the Milners came...
...young American writers living near by. As Western pragmatists, they make ideal foils for the other characters. When Khadija vanishes, M. Hugh wants to charge down to the police station to start the wheels of orderly investigation. Having saved face by blaming the calamity on various "invisibles," or devils jealous of Khadija, the family prefers methods far more circuitous and transcendental...
...nearly half a century, under eight Presidents and 16 Attorneys General, J. Edgar Hoover has commanded the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the zeal and jealous authority of a Chinese war lord, protecting the U.S. against enemies within and his agency's turf against all meddling from without. Today, at 75, Hoover directs an army of more than 7,000 agents-with an extra 1,000 reinforcements on the way, authorized this year by Congress...