Word: defrosted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Defrost your refrigerator...
Mikhail Gorbachev may not want a summit meeting with Ronald Reagan just yet, < but the Soviet leader sat down last week with U.S. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, who arrived in Moscow for the highest-level U.S.-Soviet trade talks since 1978. Gorbachev told Baldrige it is "high time to defrost the potential of Soviet-American cooperation," but he blamed the limited trade between the two countries on what he called Washington's discriminatory policies and interference in internal Soviet affairs. Afterward, Baldrige emphasized that improvements in trade "will depend on parallel improvements in other aspects of our relations...
During her husband's term in the White House, Rosalynn Carter was often characterized as a "steel magnolia." In her autobiography, First Lady from Plains (Houghton Mifflin; $17.95), to be published early next month, she does little to defrost that decidedly cool image. By her own account, she is a tireless campaigner and a more cunning strategist than the 39th President. "I am much more political than Jimmy and was more concerned about popularity and winning re-election," she says. "Our most common argument centered on political timing...
...Louis 2, Defrost...
...streets hushed and nearly deserted. The most prominent and telling sound was the blare of sirens cutting through the frigid city air. Firemen fought eight major fires on Sunday night alone. One on the city's West Side, ignited accidentally by a homeowner who used a blowtorch to defrost his frozen plumbing, ultimately destroyed 15 houses. The fire department had to cope with frozen hydrants and bursting hoses as well as the wind-whipped fires. Retreating from a flaming house, one dispirited fireman kicked at a useless ice-filled hose. "We lost it," he growled. "We're frozen...