Word: thornes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower's chief adviser on farm policy, who endorses most of the present farm program but criticizes the way the Administration has been handling it. If Hope should become Secretary of Agriculture, the committee chairman would be Minnesota's August Andresen, who has long been a sharp thorn in the side of the Department of Agriculture...
...stood tethered while Oberjohann sat in a giant acacia tree, to wait for the mother's attack and watch the proceedings. At 2 a.m., "the night turned into a roaring, crashing hell." The acacia tree was torn from its roots, and Oberjohann was hurled 15 feet into some thorn bushes. In a few minutes, he says, the mother smashed 14 acacias and some 50 other trees, trampling them almost level with the ground...
Ever since the State Department launched Amerika, a LiFE-like Russian-language picture magazine, in 1945, it has been a thorn in the Communists' side. To remove the thorn, the Soviet government methodically harassed Amerika, censoring articles and cutting its circulation-in violation of an agreement with the U.S. to distribute 50,000 copies (TIME, June 23). Even so, Amerika proved so popular that a lively black market flourished, with copies selling for twice present newsstand price of five rubles (about...
Thick Dossiers. Of several hundred Communist kidnapings in West Berlin, this was the most flagrant, and it raised the angriest protests. Dr. Linse had been a painful thorn in the Red flank. The Investigating Committee of Free Jurists (TIME, Dec. 18, 1950) compiles thick dossiers on the crimes of East German officials, on information obtained from refugees and from well-concealed underground sources in the Soviet zone. Three weeks ago Linse gave the West German newspapers his latest data on East zone rearmament. The secret Communist price on Linse's head was believed to be comparable to that...
...Vulgate remains the official Latin Bible of the Roman Catholic Church. Medieval and Renaissance artists (including Raphael, El Greco, Dürer and Van Dyck) have handed down a stock portrait of a calm and cadaverous holy man who has generally-following a popular legend-just removed a thorn from a grateful lion's paw. Scholars have long known better. In A Monument to St Jerome (Sheed & Ward; $4.50) nine Roman Catholic authorities have 'written a combined character sketch of one of the livehest, most learned and most cantankerous saints ever to be canonized a pummeling controversialist...