Word: thornes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department invited Figl because Austria is the U.S. bulwark in middle Europe and a thorn in Russia's side: in the East-West rivalry, the Germans may bargain and boggle, but Figl's Austrians are with the West in their hearts. Of the 7,000,000 population, some 80% support the stoutly anti-Communist Figl's peasant-business-socialist coalition-probably the greatest popular support of any regime in Europe. The Communists at the end of the war had 5% of the vote; their strength has not increased...
...Premier Malan he fights. "Not a single self-respecting white man" would join Torch, a Nationalist minister once prophesied. Last week Torch claimed two of South Africa's most distinguished soldiers. One was General George Edwin Brink, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Croix de Guerre. The other was General James Thorn Durrant, who was eased out this year as director general of the air force. General Brink, who commanded South Africa's 1st Division in North Africa, could not stomach what had happened to his country's armed forces. "Soldiers who were disloyal . . . get preference . . ."he declared last week...
...percentage of students who use direct tutoring is small. The Bureau conducts this phase of its services in a quiet, efficient manner, and has capably handled, what was once a very disturbing thorn in the side of University Hall...
...Jackson (Thorn Mtn.)--6-20, 3 inches granular, partly cloudy. Good both trails...
Nestling all the way, the varsity basketball team, with four sophomores in its opening thorn in the Crimson's side, sank the winning shot as the buzzer sounded, ending the overtime and crushing the home fans' hopes for the varsity's first Eastern intercollegiate Basketball League victory...