Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tongue, or Out. All over the land last week, sportwriters were primping and smoothing the cowlicks on their local heroes, like a roomful of jealous mothers trying to get baby elected No. 1 at a baby show. Obviously, no bad player would make All-America. The difficulty, except in a few obvious choices, was in distinguishing among the good, and arbitrarily conferring greatness on a few. The campaigning was already about over. Said one All-America committeeman last week: "If a guy isn't on everyone's tongue after the first six games, then...
...path of such an easy road to relief stands an almost immovable roadblock-the seven Housemasters. For these gentlemen, jealous of the sanctity of their several dining halls, last year threw up their collective hands in dismay at the thought of admitting a mere 23 outsiders apiece to such sacred precincts. Now the prospect of more than twice that number of invaders would be doubly hard for the Housemasters to swallow. And until these men relax a little the unhoused upperclassman can but stand and wait...
Diseases, too, fall into characteristic psychosomatic patterns for Dr. Dunbar. Diabetics are generally spoiled and jealous as children, and develop deep-seated sexual conflicts. Heart patients are often tense, hard-working and ambitious. People with asthma and other allergy diseases tend to have suppressed sex desires...
...rhymes with jowl) put on a boiled shirt and shook hands with 3,000 of his new charges at a party in the women's gymnasium. Next day he and Mrs. Sproul boarded the streamlined Southern Pacific Lark for the second of his eight campuses, Cal's jealous younger sister, the University of California at Los Angeles, to go through the routine again. He still had a long way to go" to cover all his domain. Says Bob Sproul: "Sure it's tough, but I do it purposely. I do it with the intention of making...
Lucky Forward is peppered with similar charges, none of them convincingly sustained. Says Allen: "Patton was the sparkplug and dynamo of the war in the ETO. The full record of his genius and far-flung impact on operations still is entombed behind an official wall of jealous silence and so-called 'classified documents...