Word: melts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sino-Soviet relationship has followed a tortuous course. A decade of comradeship shattered in 1960 over China's resentment at forever being expected to let Moscow call the tune, and over Mao's charge that Nikita Khrushchev was diluting Marxist-Leninist dogma. Border talks in 1978 began to melt the two-decade freeze. But before normalcy could be achieved, two outbreaks of hostilities in Asia seriously disturbed China. One was the invasion of Kampuchea by Viet Nam, a Soviet ally, which eventually provoked a "punitive attack" by Chinese troops on Hanoi's territory. The second was the Soviet invasion...
...bundle up in layer after layer of sweaters and long johns, long, woolly scarves around their noses and eight pairs of socks, we wear shorts and T-shirts. We may never know the sensual pleasure of entering a warm room and having all the snow on our clothes melt and soak the carpet...
Thus the wood-stove bore is without defenses, except to say that his obsession is unlikely to melt down New England and that it adds no net CO2 to the atmospheric greenhouse (a fallen tree gives off the same amount of carbon and oxygen whether it rots or burns, and a new tree that spreads in its place takes CO2 out of the air as it grows...
...high in Manhattan's Rainbow Room, where troubles melt like lemon drops and everyone looks more handsome than they really are, Lee Iacocca is doing a passable fox-trot with his daughter. "It's great," he says of the chance to retrieve the old dances. "To me they never went away. We've just had a hiatus for 15 years." This ultimate nightclub reopened last year after a $20 million renovation, and now receives 1,000 calls a day for reservations. "It's what you wanted to have money to spend on," says Joe Baum, mastermind of the dazzling...
...warming is not slowed, scientists predict, the greenhouse effect will melt enough of the polar ice caps to threaten the water supply of New York City and the very existence of low-lying New Orleans by the middle of the next century. Areas that are now productive farmland would become parched and dusty...