Word: thorned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UMass has always been thorn in the Crimson's side. In 1978, Harvard, riding the crest of a two-season, fifteen game winning streak--still the longest in the team's history--lost to the Minutemen in a 2-1 heartstopper...
WITH HER NEW NOVEL, An Indecent Obsession, Colleen McCullough appears to have forsworn the model for guaranteed success she patented four years ago. With The Thorn Birds she proved she knows how to tell a good tale; as soon as her sweeping saga of love and tragedy on the Australian Outback was released, there was no doubt that it would be a hit. Whether you read it with one eye on the kids as they built sand castles on the Jersey shore or saved it to consume during coffee breaks, the epic sucked you in with its portrayal...
...Indecent Obsession is a novel of modest proportions. Most of the action takes place on Ward X--for psychologically disturbed veterans of tropical warfare--in an Australian army hospital somewhere in the islands of New Guinea. Where The Thorn Birds spanned three generations, life with the inhabitants of Ward X focuses on the months after the official end of World War II. As the novel begins, McCullough appears ready to try her hand at a limited, intricate dissection of life's anomalies, rather than the universal truths she depicted four years ago. The five men on Ward...
DIED. Fernand Spaak, 57, Belgian diplomat who headed the European Community Commission's delegation to Washington from 1975 to 1980 and who hi February became chief of staff to Commission President Gaston Thorn hi Brussels; of wounds received when he was shot with a hunting rifle, apparently by his estranged wife of 28 years, Anna-Maria, who then appears to have committed suicide by electrocuting herself in the bath; in Ixelles, Belgium. The son of Paul-Henri Spaak, the former Belgian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister who played a major role in the formation of the European Community...
...billion to finance the purchase, which would more than double its debt load, and some observers think that Conoco might be too much to digest. Du Pont has a reputation for being a tightly run company that frequently shifts managers between product lines to give them broader experience. Asserts Thorn Brown, an analyst with the investment firm of Butcher & Singer: "There's no easy way to integrate Conoco into the Du Pont operation...