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...commentator on Radio Luxembourg called it a "black day" for the European Common Market and "the end of Europe." Never one to disguise her convictions, Newswoman Liliane Thorn-Petit attacked the nine Common Market Foreign Ministers for what she considered a pro-Arab policy. The officials, she said, lacked the courage to stand up to Arab oil producers. None of her targets had reason to be pleased with Mme. Thorn-Petit's assault, but the least happy victim last week was Luxembourg Foreign Minister Gaston Thorn, who happens to be her husband...
...second half of the season, however, proved to be another matter. Coming off exam break, a traditional thorn in the side of Harvard hockey, B.U. humiliated the Crimson in the opening round of the Beanpot tournament, 8-3. Unlike the Cornell loss, Harvard was never really in it. The worst was yet to come...
...pistol. His suicide note sounded desperate: "I have been waiting eleven hours for someone to stop. I can't stand the cold any longer and they just keep passing me by." The item was immediately picked up by the press, radio and television stations and exhibited as a thorn in the national conscience. Walter Cronkite saved it for his finale on the evening news. When he came to his usual closing line, "That's the way it is on February 6..." he seemed to be saying, "That's the way Americans...
Fonda told the audience of about 500 in Sanders Theater that the role of the antiwar movement would be primarily educational. "As long as we don't know who the Vietnamese are, as long as we don't see their faces, we are doomed to retain the thorn of Vietnam in our side," she said...
...used to say that Virginia was continually picking up mental thorns--worries which she could not get rid of--particularly from criticism. She would come to me and say: 'I've got a thorn and we would discuss the thing until we had got the thorn...