Word: thornes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...THORN TREES by John McIntosh. 183 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
This novel by a Rhodesian schoolteacher and ex-newspaperman demonstrates with a special horror how white civilization can fail in the face of the white man's degeneracy and corruption. The bush, the prickly pear and the thorn trees are creeping back over the paddocks of Sherwood Ranch, a once-prosperous farm in African "territory" on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. It is presumably in Bechuanaland, being also north of Kipling's "great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," and whatever its political future, a colonist would probably do better on the moon...
...systematic elimination of the Constituent Assembly's top leaders. Dan is one of its key figures. The articulate, Harvard-trained physician has long been one of Viet Nam's most popular politicians, and in the assembly he vied with Van for the role of chief thorn in the side of the Ky government. A Western-style liberal, Dan has opposed the military's rule in South Viet Nam all along; he has helped lead the assembly's so far unsuccessful fight to persuade the Ky government to abrogate Article 20 of the Election Decree that created...
...Thorn Electrical Industries, Britain's largest maker of radio and television sets, outbid Dutch interests by offering $74.8 million for ailing Pye of Cambridge, sixth-ranking TV-set producer, which lost $25 million last year. Austrian-born Sir Jules Thorn, 62, built Thorn up from a mite to a mammoth (fiscal 1966 sales: $238 million) by breaking a light-bulb monopoly in the '30s. Later, he expanded by absorbing such competitors as Marconi, British Philco, and Ultra Radio and Television. Through Pye, Thorn hopes to move into telecommunications, now dominated in Britain by the likes of Plessey...
...proliferating herds of hippo, buffalo and giraffe add to the problem, and as a result, African game parks are badly overgrazed and their enormous herds are faced with famine. Tsavo's hungry elephants have uprooted entire forests of thorn trees, turned giant baobab trees into twisted wreckage in their search for edible shrubbery. Parts of the Zambezi Valley, according to one conservationist, "look as though an atom bomb had exploded in the area...