Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women with the likeness of a living person. He found his answer in the person of Elizabeth Siddal, who was eventually to become his wife. Pictured in "Beata Beatrix" with the figures of Dante and Love behind her, Elizabeth Siddal eventually proved a less than ideal Madonna. Jealous of his work and diverting him from it by continual illness, she committed suicide after two years of marriage. Another woman soon replaced her; Rossetti became fascinated with Janie Morris, the wife of William Morris. Involved in a triangle, Rossetti understandably found her at times a heavenly apparition, as in the "Blessed...
...other imprisoning the most beautiful girl in the world. Frank uses the genie and enjoys the girl, who is also loving and compliant, but he is disquieted when he notices that whenever the girl emerges from the bottle, she wears a look of heavy-lidded satiation. He is jealous, and the genie, who is very clever indeed, leads him on by observing that there is more room in bottles than one would think...
...biographer, Bell is not jealous of his own observations. As a result, while treating his subject with considerable dignity, and distant sympathy, his narration often is speculative. The majority of his conjectures are quite credible. At one point in the biography, while attempting to take stock of her character, he writes with humility...
...Geneva accords, but it is actually overrun by an antipasto of Asian troops. U.S.-supported mercenaries from Thailand and opium-growing Meo tribesmen from the northern hills help out the Royal Laotian Army. China has something like 20,000 troops in the country; they build roads while keeping a jealous eye on the North Vietnamese. Since 1952 Hanoi has had troops in Laos, which it used to describe as "deserters" and "volunteers." Now that it has the biggest single army in the country-65,000 troops-it does not acknowledge them...
John Kennedy realized the danger of yes-men and tried to encourage dissent. Lyndon Johnson was a more jealous and insecure man. "I don't want loyalty," he once said, "I want loyalty. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket," He wanted more than loyalty "Servility" might be a better word. After Hubert Humphrey gave a speech which seemed to take some personal credit for the Administration's education policies, Johnson called in the White House correspondents and remarked...