Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Itemized Bill. In Kansas City, Mo., a woman sued for divorce, complained that her husband was "disagreeable, irritable, morbid, cool, bitter, jealous, heckling, picayunish, loathsome, insulting, brazen, miserly, gluttonish, temperamental, selfish, contemptuous, inattentive, uncivil and inconsiderate...
...sees correctly that despite Ehrenburg's criticism of America, his articles contain a message of hope for this country. For, says Houghteling, Ehrenburg could have written as frankly as he did of American prosperity for a Russian audience only if he was assured that the Russian people are not jealous of America, but are contented and happy with their own form of government. Although Barton's attempt to get at the forces which lie behind the present conflict in China draws heavily on Theodore White's book, his article is a great deal more than a book review. He traces...
...disappointment not alone in the United Nations, but in the Big Powers' peace terms for Hungary. The United Nations, he said, was a misnomer-the nations "did not unite, did not form one great allied United Nations, but only an alliance of states, a league of members all jealous of their sovereign rights." He emphasized that Europe's small nations are hurt by the fact that when the fate of Europe is discussed in international gatherings they have little to say. Said Auer: "The small nations ask the great powers to give them a hearing. . . . They...
Woman of the Year. Though 1946 was unquiet with the drums of war behind and the danger of war ahead, a deeply happy thread ran through its garish pattern; it was a year of homecoming and, therefore, a woman's year. To loyalties older than flags jealous governments had released some 60 million men. (The Americans chafed noisily at demobilization delays, and returned horrified by the scarcity of water closets and breakfast foods beyond the oceans; the Russians returned discontented at the remembrance of fine houses, fabulous watches, and women with soft hands across the Oder, the Danube...
...southern ranch while his successors bungled the return to democracy, compounded inflation, let Brazilians go hungry. Last week, before a rally of his own Labor Party members in his own cattle-raising state of Rio Grande do Sul, Vargas blamed his downfall on "foreign financial interests," who were jealous of his plans to make Brazil economically independent, let go at President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his Government...