Word: jealous
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...bodies cry for food, as long as lean human frames stand naked, as long as homeless wretches haunt this land of plenty." It ended: ''His unlimited talents invariably aroused the jealousies of those inferiors who posed as his equals. He was the Stradivarius, whose notes rose in competition with jealous drums, envious tomtoms. His was the unfinished symphony...
...history contains few more provoking mysteries than the personality of Ulysses S. Grant, described by Henry Adams as "shy; jealous; sometimes vindictive; more or less dull in outward appearance; always needing stimulants." Grant was an easygoing, touchy, unimpressive soldier in his early career, later a devoted family man who failed with an almost uncanny thoroughness as a farmer, rent collector, store clerk, before he blossomed as the stolid genius of the Civil War. An essentially honest man who labored in terrible agony to pay his personal debts. Grant became identified with the most scandalous corruption that ever touched a President...
...wrote Kirksville friends that he was suspicious of his wife, notified Kirksville tradesmen to cancel her charge accounts, told university friends that he was afraid he was going crazy. In turn his bride informed him that an old suitor of hers, a tall, dour carpenter named Mandeville Zenge, was jealous...
...chief of police of Wellsville, Ohio refused to turn over to a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation a gangster named Adam Richetti, wanted for taking part in the Kansas City Station massacre. That refusal marked the peak of jealous friction between local and Federal law enforcement agencies. Last winter Attorney General Homer Still Cummings tactfully called a peace pow-wow in Washington between the conflicting parties (TIME, Dec. 24). On the theory that the camaraderie of the classroom makes for mutual understanding and friendship, it was decided that three schools should be set up within the Department...
...guns in their hands and murder in their hearts. They are political lawyers who resent the Bureau's activities against their clients, frightened liberals who see in the Bureau the material for a U. S. Cheka, and others, not all of them outside the Department of Justice, who are jealous of Director Hoover's success and political immunity. These call him everything from a vain peacock to a vulgar gum-shoer. And to this sort of charge, Director Hoover has one reply...