Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thaw following the recent sneak snowfalls has transformed Harvard Square into a morass; an oily, black slush is waging an all-out war against man, and winning. What was once snow now looks like low-grade mud, feels like cold porridge, and acts with a diabolical intelligence. This Cambridge variety preys on nice elderly ladies with full shopping bags and weak ankles, lying in wait to capitalize upon the slightest mis-step. Faint yips are all that remain of a dog who attempted to cross the Square; six Volkswagens so far have disappeared into Massachusetts Avenue; and a small child...
India was gripped by such a wave of articulate anti-Communist opinion that even Premier Nehru, World Neutralist No. 1, had to heed it. On the eve of his visit to Washington, Nehru still talked about a Communist thaw and a need to conciliate the Soviet Union, but he also had much kinder words for U.S. policy past and present, overflowing personal tributes for President Eisenhower and, most surprisingly, thoughts of stronger support for South Viet Nam's doughty anti-Communist President Ngo Dinh Diem, whom Nehru had once belittled as a U.S. puppet. "What good will...
...international thaw, which began with the death of Stalin and continued at the Big Four campfire at Geneva, may have diminished the momentum of NATO, but it hurt the Communists worse...
...potentially the most promising development in affairs of the Western alliance since the post-Stalin thaw set i -one that depended on the nature and the mood of the steps to follow. Bothered by the linking together of recent animosities and future needs, the London Economist warned of "the danger . . . of a plunge into a new European experiment, motivated by anti-Americanism and by hostility to Asian-African nationalism. On the other hand, the Economist went on there is now "a fresh chance, which should be seized, to erect on this side of the Atlantic the sturdy pillar which...
...aorta they slipped the stem of the tee-shaped gadget, then worked this down into the heart wall until its head plugged the blowout. After trimming off excess stem, they sewed the plug in place. Then they stitched up the incisions, closed Hickey's chest and let him thaw...