Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat's preemptive strike in effect eliminated from power all his major rivals among Nasser's heirs. It also settled a sharp policy debate. Sabry, the first to go, was not only jealous of Sadat's growing personal prestige but also a noisy critic of the President's decision to join Libya and Syria in a vague new Arab federation. Gomaa had objected to Sadat's plans for constitutional reforms to guarantee the civil liberties that the former Interior Minister had made a career of suppressing. Ex-War Minister Fawzi and most of the others...
...enough to make Red Auerbach jealous...
...Jealous Generals. On the negative side is the fact that some of Saigon's elite units were badly bloodied-the Airborne, Rangers, Marines, and what many Americans consider ARVN's top infantry division, the 1st. Moreover, the operation underscored continuing deficiencies in crucial areas like communications. American pilots had problems with Vietnamese ground controllers, who have a tough time pronouncing words like "coordinate"-or speaking English at all while ducking rocket and mortar fire...
...orgasmic mystery seems to have subsided, even when his fear and protestations at the technological onslaught seem to have quieted down. Somewhere in the farthest reaches of his herculean psyche, somewhere fluttering between his mind and body, his body and soul, is a small voice, a nervous, restless, jealous voice, crying out that "men look to destroy every quality in a woman which will give her the powers of a male, for she is in their eyes already armed with the power that she brought them forth...
...fanatic flaw in Arnolphe, the protagonist of Wives, is that he is a wildly jealous man with a horrible fear of being cuckolded. Arnolphe (Brian Bedford) has had his intended wife Agnes (Joan Van Ark) posted to a convent from childhood, and now keeps her isolated from society in a town house guarded by two watchful servants. Arnolphe's master plan has been to keep Agnes innocent in body, and blank of mind. A young gallant wrecks the plan. Horace (David Dukes) catches sight of Agnes, falls in love with her, trysts with her and eventually wins...