Word: thorns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Calvin Livingston's "Afro of Thorn" was taken from the restaurant's entrance around March 12, said restaurant art curator Carole J. Crittenden. Later the same day, Pam Roberts's "Save the Last Dance for Me" was found missing from an upstairs room, she said...
Maybe I'm coming out of left field in busting everyone's chops here, but this is really starting to become a thorn in my side. I walk into the magazine office, and everywhere I look, someone's dropping the ball, passing the buck or dodging a bullet. And now I'm starting to realize that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Our writers, though still wet behind the ears, are starting to endlessly shoot this shit as well. We don't want to bite the hand that feeds us, but soon enough we'll be digging...
...November 19, 1997, state lawmakers approveda bill that would prove to be a thorn in Watson'sside. It required police commissioners to seekunion approval before undertaking large-scalerestructuring...
...considered it to be possible that he was delivering a message from the central administration that it was open to resolving Peter's case if we chose to follow this procedure. The point is as simple as the Uncle Remus story about Brer Rabbit and the briar patch. Each thorn along the procedural way a prick to spark consciousness in a new Harvard audience, each a stopping point along our way toward truth and justice and a stage to tell our story...
...ahead by as many as 13 points, but both camps say the gap has closed. And although Murray has more money, Smith's followers, whom she refers to as "Linda's army," are generally more rabid. Plus, she has a history of coming from behind. There's also the thorn-in-the-side-of-the-party factor, which in distant Washington State could work in her favor. Her D.C. colleagues can't stand her. "She's impossible to deal with. She's nuts. Totally bonkers," says a senior House Republican. That's probably because she won't join the boys...