Word: thorns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...whenever he misses a putt on the golf course because that is the nastiest oath he knows. Other insurance leaders as well as some hospital administrators, doctors, trial lawyers and auto-company executives can barely repress their anger whenever they hear the name. Of all the meddling bureaucrats and thorn-in-the-side consumer advocates who afflict big business, none is so infuriating as Herbert Sidney Denenberg, the insurance commissioner of Pennsylvania...