Word: jealously
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...what they could see. Their trip, which lasted a year, was filled with marvels of scenery and encounters with the Indians. At Fort McKenzie, in what is now Montana, Bodmer made portraits of the Blackfeet who came to trade there. One dawn the Blackfeet were attacked by neighboring tribes, jealous of the Blackfeet's trading privileges. Bodmer sketched the massacre-the best eyewitness scene of an Indian fight ever made-while the prince set down notes: "We were awakened by musket-shot upon which we rose in haste and loaded our fowling pieces with ball...
...Corona, Calif., Elizabeth ("Ma ") Duncan, 58, waited in women's prison for transfer to San Quentin, where she was scheduled to die in a gas chamber for being so jealous of the 30-year-old nurse who married her son that she hired two thugs to kill the bride...
Without Help. Since labor is jealous of surrendering any jobs, the Government's intervention does not always work-and sometimes results only in a compromise that prolongs an impossible situation. Thus, neither Continental nor United Air Lines has any problem with a third man. Without Government help, they both withstood strikes from the flight engineers without yielding, have since given engineers pilot training and trimmed their flight crews from four to three...
American Arbiter. More than any other reigning beauty, John F. Kennedy's Jacqueline has set the pace for the new First Ladies. After announcing in advance that she had no intention of "bungling" her children's upbringing, Jackie Kennedy has not only succeeded in separating the jealous worlds of family and official duty, but has handled both with verve, resolve and good taste. During nearly 17 months in the White House, she has gone far toward recreating and refurbishing the serene, classically elegant residence that Jefferson intended it to be. She has helped, too, to awaken the sometimes...
...basic fault seems to be his inability to leave well enough alone. Artists "seek novelty by gradually turning away from perfection." Art, music, literature and architecture are diminished by "introducing numerous elements which the concern for perfection had either eliminated or condemned during the course of time." Philosophy, jealous of the progress of science, tries to "acquire something of science's prestige by dissimulating the meaninglessness of its task behind an incomprehensible jargon...