Word: thornes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money, medical supplies, food and weapons to give to villagers in the threatened countryside. "We must win people's hearts, arm them, organize them into guerrillas and send them after the Reds. We have a saying in our country: 'When the hand is pierced by a thorn, use a thorn to remove it.' The people are our thorn-they alone can save Samneua." But in these two provinces (long occupied by the Pathet Lao), arming the villagers was in itself a risk: probably not half of the terrorized population of Samneua would remain loyal to the government...
...Aegean. Roman magistrates and military officers found themselves held captive in the king's dungeons, and finally, by order of Mithradates, some 80,000 Romans and Italians were massacred. It was too much. In 87 B.C. the renowned General Sulla set out with five legions to pull the thorn...
...particularly sticky day is in the offing. By the time next summer's heat and humidity come along, the forecaster will have a "discomfort index" that combines both the air's temperature and the amount of moisture in it. Under the formula, explains Climatologist Earl C. Thorn, a discomfort figure of 75 might mean 80° temperature and 60% relative humidity, or it could mean 85° temperature and 30% relative humidity, or 75° temperature, 100% humidity. All are unpleasant. Thorn estimates that 10% of the population can expect to feel uncomfortable before the index reaches...
...story ended there, it would have had its share of irony. The Premier of Togoland, Sylvanus Olympic, against whom the plot was presumably directed, has long been a thorn in the French side. A graduate of the London School of Economics and a top African executive in Unilever (Lever Bros.), Olympio lobbied so successfully in Paris and at the U.N. that he wangled from a reluctant Paris the promise of independence...
...When TIME'S story went to press, latest Audit Bureau of Circulation figures available listed Redbook's circulation at 2,591,676; a new A.B.C. figure published since then confirms Reader Thorn...