Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Convention defeats Goldwater and adopts another "liberal" platform, it will be through the coalition of jealous, selfish, incompetent kingmakers, who will ruin all unity...
There was once a sultan with a harem of jealous wives. Being a wise man, the sultan secretly gave to each wife a blue bead. When they sought proof of his affection, he would say, "I love the one who has the blue bead." Thus he was able to live happily ever after...
...days of alliance with the Pathet Lao, Kong Le's men had been equipped with Russian tanks and guns. Now he was out of ammunition, and with U.S. military aid cut off under the terms of the latest Geneva agreement, he had to rely for supplies on jealous Rightist Phoumi, Deputy Premier in the coalition government. Kong Le got precious few supplies. His men, unpaid in nearly two years, still remained loyal, and thanks to his legendary status among the Lao, new volunteers appeared daily to fight at the side of Setthathirath...
...jealous Moor opens the armoire. He discovers the enclosed lover, who emerges and shoves Othello, first on film, then live, across the gap and onto the other screen. The husband returning from the business trip now finds Othello in his wife's armoire. Farce to be sure, but so neatly coordinated that its humor is as artful as it is foolish...
Reid's most crucial moment came in an earlier test of strength with military brass jealous of his influence. To get the upper hand, he recently called in the army and navy chiefs of staff one at a time to inform them of a new system of rotating the three military staff command positions every 18 months. Getting wind of Reid's maneuver, officers of the powerful air force grew restless, and coup rumors crackled through the capital. Immediately, Reid called in the air force chief of staff-either accept the rotation plan, he put it bluntly...