Word: thornes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...After Squibb Institute chemists tinkered with the molecule of hydrocortisone by inserting an atom of fluorine, Harvard Medical School's Dr. George W. Thorn and colleagues found that they had a synthetic hormone far more powerful than the natural ones. Still available only in pinhead quantities for research, it controlled a far-advanced case of Addison's disease, even when the dose was cut to one one-hundred-thousandth...
...conditions for those with exam breaks are as follows: New Hampshire: Franconia, Cannon, 5 to 40, 2 powder, cloudy, good to excellent; Franconia, Mittersill, 7 to 25, 3 powder, clear, excellent; Intervale, 7 to 15, 2 powder, clear, good; Jackson, Thorn Mt., 5 to 15, 2 powder, clear, fair to good; Mount Sunapse, 4 to 10, 1 powder, partly cloudy, fair to good; North Conway, Cranmore, 7 to 15, 2 powder, clear, fair to good...
...physical and psychological thorn in Red China's side for five years, Quemoy Island is a bleak, treeless patch of rock and sand, 70 square miles in area, which lies only five miles from the mainland, twelve miles from the Communist port city of Amoy. Off Quemoy last week a furious little skirmish between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists was being fought across a few thousand yards of choppy blue water in Formosa Strait...
...sent most of the profits straight to charity. Ned's chief financial problem was how to answer his fan mail when he could only "afford two rupees [about 70?] for stamps every week." He noted, with a touch of malicious pleasure, that his modesty made him a thorn in the flesh of his superiors. "The officers steer clear of me, because I make them uncomfortable...