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Word: jealously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington is also feeling the pressure of power-jealous bureaucrats in the agency's regional offices. When federal EPA officials began investigating complaints of 300,000 leaking barrels of pesticides in Toone, Tenn.--where six carcinogens were later found in drinking water at 2400 times the "safe" level--regional EPA officials refused to cooperate. "I'm not going to tell you anything more about this," said one, who warned, "Listen...you people up there better stay out of this. I mean, I'm telling your office to stay out of this altogether." It wasn't until the Washington Post published...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: The Politics of Pollution | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

Sums up Jim Henderson, who is steadily dating fellow Cadet Debbie Widick: "A few of the guys are jealous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dating at West Point | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...South America, the ubiquitous narrator makes love to a madwoman while slapping ferociously at mosquitoes "whose blood had been our blood only an instant before." One night in Israel, he hides naked on an apartment-house roof, like a character in a French farce, as a jealous husband prowls below. When he falls asleep he finds himself in a graveyard, playing with children long dead. In third-person tales, a homosexual's latent yearning for a woman leads to two murders and a suicide. In others, a rabbi contends with imps, demons, dybbuks and harpies; a woman sins with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God's Novel | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Such suspense - and such full-throated comedy - as the picture offers derives mainly from Allan Magicovsky as Adams' wildly jealous lover. He takes to following Sutherland around in a men acing way, and he might, in the process, discover just what game is afoot. But he doesn't, and neither does a cop who stops the escaping Sutherland because the van carrying the swag to the airport has a malfunctioning taillight. Magicovsky was our last hope for some real excitement, but only modest suspense is generated by the encounter. Like everything else in this movie, it is underplayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mild Tale | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Because of Princeton's recent transition to a coeducational institution, jealous older alumni have been disappointed in the breakdown of their alma mater's traditions...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Of Machines and Alumni | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

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