Word: ices
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ice has been broken." So allowed an impassive Mikhail Gorbachev as he stood beside a wooden-faced Helmut Kohl amid the czarist splendor of the Kremlin's St. George Hall. The Soviet leader's chilly assessment of his first private meeting with the West German Chancellor brought little warmth to the thaw in relations between the Soviet Union and West Germany. But that hardly mattered in the cold calculation of national interests that dominated four days of careful, even curt talks between Europe's two pre-eminent powers. Gorbachev's impoverished military superpower is keen to profit from Western investment...
...last major obstacle to freedom was a towering ridge of Arctic ice, 400 yds. wide and 30 ft. high. The Soviet icebreaker Admiral Makarov, which had been heading home when it was diverted to aid in the rescue, took nearly a day to reduce the barrier to rubble. By late afternoon a sister ship, the Vladimir Arseniev, plowed within 400 yds. of two California gray whales that had been trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska. Sensing that their escape was at hand, the whales, nicknamed Putu (Ice Hole) and Siku (Ice), swam out of their icy prison into...
...Evening with Champions" participant Katherine Healy, ice skating is only her second love. Her first love is ballet dancing...
...performed in many prestigious roles including Clara in the New York City Ballet's "The Nutcracker Suite," and Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet." Healy, a Princeton undergraduate, also began dancing as the principal dancer in London Festival Ballet at only age 15. There is strong connection between dancing and ice skating, Healy says...
...When you're on the floor you do an Arabesque standing in one spot, but while you're on the ice you can do the same thing and be moving," Healy says. "I think that's what most dancers like best about skating, the fact that you can hold a pose and still be moving at the same time...