Word: thorns
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...sure enough, the shifty Rommel came to clip his thorn. He came with tanks, with a bee-swarm of dive-bombers...
Pierre Koenig and his 3,000 Parisians, Bretons, Moroccans and Hitler-hating Germans settled down to wait for the inevitable. It was inevitable that Field Marshal Rommel, having bypassed Bir Hachéim in the expectation that it would be a pushover, only to find it a stubborn thorn, would devote his full fury to the place. Every day for ten days there had been attacks by Italian troops, stiffened by a few Germans. Every day Koenig's band had thrown the attacks back with the old French favorite, the 75-mm. cannon...
...first match against the Green wave last Wednesday, the Southerners, with far more practice than the Barnaby forces, lost only one set in chalking up a 9 to 0 triumph. Thorn Kissel was the man who saved the squad from a total drubbing...
Such talented Sophomores as Ted Cohn and Thorn Kissel, plus Juniors Jack Clark and Tom Sears are among the hopefuls. Aubrey Gould and Don Daniols, lettermen from last year, will not be able to play this year...
...Government of revolutionary President Gabriel Terra from shaking apart. The new Constitution arbitrarily gave three of nine Cabinet posts and an equal division of Senators to the leading opposition party (provided, as invariably occurs, that the two leading parties together poll a majority). This law has been a thorn in the democratically elected Government of President Alfredo Baldomir...