Word: jealously
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Krauts & Cokes. Although Americans had made a better impression on Austrians than on any other people in Europe, the Gemütlichkeit was riddled by flashes of bitterness. Usually broadminded, the Viennese grew jealous, called girls who fraternized with the chocolate-bearing G.I.s "chocoladies." The sprinkling (5%) of combat veterans among U.S. troops called the Austrians just plain Krauts, only softer...
...Filipino citizen is complex. He is an islander but not a seafarer. He is loyal, excitable, bright, fiercely jealous and brave. Eighty percent of him live in raised, thatched, nipa-palm huts. He rises each damp dawn to blow his breakfast fire to life and smoke a rolled "toosh-toosh" (homemade cigar). Every day he faces hours of weary plowing behind his lazy carabao (water buffalo). He beefs about the land still held by the Catholic Church, his taxes, the reformed constabulary, the Chinese who are his shopkeepers, and about his fortunes-which he often hocks for a sensational funeral...
...first 1,100 Yanks who went to Oxford that way (The American Rhodes Scholarships, Princeton University Press; $2). Had Rhodes scholarships produced a batch of Anglophiles? Aydelotte thinks not. Says he: "The American Rhodes scholar learns to respect his country as the jingo never does. He learns to be jealous of her action in those things that matter...
Britain's Foreign Office, which has always kept a jealous eye on the "gateway to India," remained mum, the War Office referred callers to the India Office, the India Office said: "No importance...
Skeptics suspected that the Navy, fighting doggedly against unification of the services and jealous of the Army's atomic bomb, might be tooting its horn too loudly. But there was still a fair chance that the Congressmen's scuttlebutt was based on well-hidden fact. Two novel and dreadful weapons have long been discussed, in whispers...