Word: jealous
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...Gaullist plows through 18 pages of violent crime in the Boston Herald, searching for some comforting words by C. L. Sulzberger, and finds instead James Reston's notice that God (Reston has a pipeline) is getting jealous of de Gaulle's pretensions...
...inscrutable lot. By superimposing the events of the Greeks on the attitudes of moderns, O'Neill gives playgoers the sometimes heartrending spectacle of a man undone by numbing catastrophes, but never the elevating grandeur of a man so towering that he is struck down by jealous Fate...
...years ago, it was just beginning to bend a sympathetic ear to Otto Passman's beefy hostility to the entire program. Last year Capitol Hill celebrated Mr. Passman's eighth year as chairman of the House subcommittee by cutting the Administration's request from $4.95 billion to $3.93 billion. Jealous of their prerogative of scrutinizing aid funds, both House and Senate remained deeply suspicious about the President's intention to transform two-thirds of economic assistance into long-term development loans instead of outright grants. This change, they maintained, was only a shallow disguise of A.I.D.'s proverbially wasteful expenditure...
Story: the "honeymoon" with the American people is being threatened by those who are jealous of Jackie...
...some not unimpeachable sources, he flew about 70 yds., picked up a 36-ft. cross that ten men could not lift, and stood it upright "as if it were a straw." Naturally enough, the Franciscans were not loath to display their miracle man; naturally enough, other orders were jealous and denounced Father Giuseppe as a would-be Messiah. His last years were spent in close seclusion and continual rapture. "And what is it," he was once asked, "that souls in rapture see?" He replied: "They feel as though they were taken into a wonderful gallery, shining with never-ending beauty...