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Israel and the Arab states by an international guarantee of boundaries, and he offered U.S. money to resettle the Arab refugees, whose misery has remained a thorn in the conscience of the free world...
...black-masked bird with unsavory instincts, the shrike impales its prey on a thorn. In human form, the impaler is Ann Downs (tautly played by June Allyson), the impaled victim is husband Jim (Ferrer), the thorn their marriage. In flashbacks, the wife is shown mothering and dominating docile Jim. When his theatrical career crumbles for want of ever more inner props, Jim tries, in despair, to attach himself to another woman (Joy Page). But her reluctance to play Mom finally drives him to a jar of sleeping pills...
...Thomas was fatally dosed with morphine by a doctor whom a rival clique had summoned to treat the poet's alcoholic miseries. Dame Edith Sitwell, rising disdainfully over such partisan bickering, has said that Thomas died of an infection caught when he scratched an eyeball on a rose thorn...
...Geiger counter test on evaporated rain water in the Yard this past winter "sounded like a bobcat backing into a thorn bush," continued Thomas. "Most of the radiation that comes in rain or snow never gets beyond the roof, though any radioactive material that does get in decays very rapidly. There is no significant accumulation of irradiation of any amount in the water," he concluded...
...Bargaining involving surrender of strategically unimportant and militarily indefensible Quemoy and Matsu need not be appeasement if the U.S. gains some immediate benefits in return--such as the return of imprisoned U.S. flyers and a cease-fire in the Formosa Straits. Case-fire in itself would remove a sharp thorn from American relations with Britain and create a favorable climate for future negotiations on the larger stakes involved...