Word: jealously
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...Navy Department organization still is based on seven autonomous bureaus which get their own appropriations, go their own way, draw up their own schedules of materials and manpower needs. And for operations purposes the Navy is divided into 15 independent districts, each jealous of its own prerogatives, a division of authority with borderlines in which often nobody really considers himself in charge...
...though Vargas made them stop parading, Brazilians, traditionally jealous of European encroachments, growled for war behind closed doors. Echoes of their growls reached Vargas, who hesitated no longer. Summoning his Cabinet, he had it draw up a sober official statement...
This was a job for Paul Bunyan; to wrest an all-weather road from the jealous Northland between early spring and autumn; to span the fierce, death-cold rushing rivers, the black custard quagmires; to cut switchbacks across the Great Divide, to make the way between the Arctic and the U.S. for a highway which some day may be as common as the Boston Post Road...
...Widener's son, Joseph Early, ailing at 68, announced that it was to go intact to the National Gallery. Catch was that the art-rich National Gallery was short of cash. When the Pennsylvania Legislature last year tried to waive the gift tax, jealous Philadelphians, who wanted the Widener hoard for their own Museum of Art, slapped down that gesture in short order...
...this business, as in others, a man is jealous of his reputation. Your false report was a vicious piece of writing, based, obviously, on the unconfirmed word of somebody who did not know what he was talking about. You say in your article "there was no excuse for the manner in which the news of Leonski's arrest was broken to his aged Polish-born mother." I say there is no excuse for the manner in which you smear one in your own craft...