Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vowed, his work "is going to reflect the society around me"-particularly the new family structures. "I don't think I could live in a commune myself, or even what they call a 'triangular' marriage-you know, one guy with two chicks. I'm too jealous by nature." As for allotting his time, he declared: "I've done 90% of the work I'm going to do. Mostly I'm just going to take sea trips...
...young American writers living near by. As Western pragmatists, they make ideal foils for the other characters. When Khadija vanishes, M. Hugh wants to charge down to the police station to start the wheels of orderly investigation. Having saved face by blaming the calamity on various "invisibles," or devils jealous of Khadija, the family prefers methods far more circuitous and transcendental...
...nearly half a century, under eight Presidents and 16 Attorneys General, J. Edgar Hoover has commanded the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the zeal and jealous authority of a Chinese war lord, protecting the U.S. against enemies within and his agency's turf against all meddling from without. Today, at 75, Hoover directs an army of more than 7,000 agents-with an extra 1,000 reinforcements on the way, authorized this year by Congress...
...thing, Doxiadis predicts that Detroit will grow northward toward the St. Lawrence Seaway; at present, the Seaway is not attracting any surge of industry and the city is expanding faster in every other direction. To make matters worse, the 1,112 local governments in the Detroit region, jealous of their autonomy, have steadfastly refused to work together and show no signs of changing in the future...
...Hershey set an intelligent tone for the ensuing nine months with the initial love scene that aims neither for low laughs nor clinical cynicism. Instead, Tish and Jay treat each other with a conspiratorial tenderness that deepens throughout her pregnancy. Suzanne, meanwhile, keeps a reasonably tight check on her jealous impulses and awaits, with as much dignity as possible, the qualified glories of stepmotherhood...