Word: thornes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Rexist Degrelle is a thorn in their flesh and because they appreciate that Premier van Zeeland stands for traditional, quiet Belgian politics and for no fancy isms, the three parties in the Belgian Cabinet coalition - Catholic, Liberal, Socialist - agreed to offer no rival candidates. The stage was thus set for a fight between parliamentary government and Rexism, a fight in which Degrelle will get no support that the wily Premier can possibly sidetrack...
...competitors like Mr. Hoffman who have athletic paraphernalia as well as courses to sell, Mr. Atlas' dynamic tension is a continual thorn, particularly when used, as it always is, with the phrase "the world's most perfectly developed man." Mr. Atlas talks about the beauty of his body with the impersonal pride of a steelmaster describing the finest rolling mill in existence. What his competitors question is how much of Mr. Atlas' physical assets was acquired by dynamic tension...
...other vitally interested parties to the strike: John L. Lewis, overlord of the Committee for Industrial Organization, to whom the unionization of the motor industry is but one strategic move in his great labor game; and the New Deal, in whose side the strike is a great thorn. On Inauguration Day the conference commenced. Next day John L. Lewis aborted it with a press statement which, even for him, touched a new high in boldness. To the President of the U. S., Leader Lewis issued the following public ultimatum: "We have advised the Administration through the Secretary of Labor...
...odds the outstanding men on the ice were the Green defensemen, Don Otis and Gordon Bennett, whose thumping bodychecks were a thorn in the side of the Crimson all evening. Football-captain Bennett and his equally husky partner were all too reminiscent of the days of Harvard's Bigelow brothers...
...Japanese Government, with its practised flair for choosing the safe moment to be offensive, took advantage last week of world-wide preoccupation with Britain's Battle Royal to ram yet another thorn into China's flesh...