Word: thornes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First prize ($2,000) went to France's Alfred Manessier, 44, for his 5-ft.-wide Crown of Thorns (opposite), a radiant liturgical painting in which a molten skull, mouth agape, glows hot beneath a blue-black thorn crown. Painter Manessier, who was reconverted to Roman Catholicism after service in World War II, began to change from figurative to nonfigurative painting in 1947, also branched out into stained glass and tapestry design. With increased recognition as one of France's foremost painters (TIME, Mar. 21) has come a good share of the world's top art awards...
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...