Word: thawed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thompson's cold-war technique is the essence of diplomacy: to keep talking when both sides are scarcely on speaking terms and to set a breakneck pace for negotiations at the first sign of a thaw. To win withdrawal of the Red army from Austria, Thompson haggled fruitlessly through 379 meetings for nine years, then achieved agreement in eleven hectic days...
...Hungarians - since the early days of the cold war - by some 7,000,000 little brown boxes containing lethal charges of TNT. As the Iron Curtain wears thin, the mines are be coming as much of an embarrassment as a hindrance to trespassers. Stray cats or even a speedy thaw sets them off in the night, and in last year's torrential floods a great many mines sown on hillsides along the boundary-marking Pinka and Raab rivers worked loose and washed over to the Austrian bank. On April 1, a 60-year-old Austrian farmer digging for sand...
...During the exhibit's month-long stay, the decades are divided among the following Manhattan art dealers: Paul Rosenberg, 1895-1904; M. Knoedler, 1905-1914; Perls and E. V. Thaw, 1915-1924; Saidenberg and Stephen Hahn, 1925-1934; Pierre Matisse, 1935-1944; Andre Emmerich and Odyssia, 1945-1954; Cordier & Ekstrom...
...James A. Pike, Bishop of California, for his untiring efforts to thaw out God's frozen people. The man I should most dislike to see nominated is the man whom everyone will select and who will be chosen by you, L.B.J...
...Hooray for Bishop Pike! As an Episcopalian, I am happy to learn that one bishop recognizes that the ecclesiastical talents of women are not limited to sitting in a pew. East Glacier, Mont., seems an unlikely place for a thaw in "God's frozen people," but Bishop Pike has managed to break...