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Stalin wanted outright subservience; Tito, unique in having liberated his country with his own partisan resources, was far too prickly to knuckle under.
A WP front page piece examines a prickly side-effect of the Starr report's release: the heightened risk of curious ten-year-olds asking parents what "oral sex" is.
Even though he is the personification of the company, an inside WP story observes that defense lawyers might have viewed him as so "prickly and combustible" as to undermine his own case.
It's the fate of Wigand, played by Crowe as a prickly, blockish fellow with no social skills--an edgy wonk.
The NYT says that the Albanians have been more "prickly" than anticipated, hesitating to sign an agreement that doesn't explicitly promise an eventual referendum on self-governance for the region, a stance the LAT also reports.