Word: thorns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...initials stand for His Master's Voice -- is the largest chain in Britain, and has opened stores in Australia, Canada and Japan. Among its innovations are in-store music performances, video deejays and listening posts that enable customers to preview records. HMV, which is owned by British recording giant Thorn EMI, plans to open stores in Los Angeles and Boston next year...
...legs. Suddenly, I felt excruciating pain. She sliced off my clitoris and now it lay in her gnarled hands. She then sliced my inner lips until there was nothing left. There was blood everywhere, but by now I felt no more pain, not even when she stuck a thorn from the acacia tree into me to keep the wound closed...
...FIRST MAN IN ROME, by Colleen McCullough (Morrow; 896 pages; $22.95), is a truly astonishing work, the first of five planned volumes about life -- mostly political life -- in ancient Rome. Robert Graves covered this ground, in I, Claudius, and so did Shakespeare, for that matter. McCullough, who wrote The Thorn Birds, is not awed, and her narration marches sturdily through a period of fascinating turmoil in the last years of the Republic. Terrifying German barbarians have wiped out most of Rome's legions. The Senate dithers; Gaius Marius, a wealthy military man of low birth, has the energy...
...recent years, the Review has been a thorn in the side of Dartmouth's administration. In addition to churning out vitriolic prose, editors from the paper took sledge hammers to anti-apartheid protestors' shanty towns and have been accused of harassing William Cole, a Black faculty member...
...have to improve on our serving," Lem added. "It's been a thorn in our side for seven matches--until it's taken care of, everything else is secondary...