Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman lived after a 64.4° temperature in 1951). Doctors had little hope of saving the child, but they decided to try. She was placed in a warm-water bath and given regular cortisone injections. As the water's temperature was increased Vickie's body began to thaw. She moved slightly; then she cried. Three and a half hours after she was put in the water, Vickie was back in bed and able to swallow liquids. Mrs. Davis, with similar treatment, took five hours to thaw...
...wrong weather is almost a tradition for Winter Olympics. At St. Moritz, in 1928, blinding snowstorms followed by unseasonable warmth almost wrecked the games; Lake Placid in 1932 all but melted in midwinter thaw; at Oslo, 20 years later, warm weather nearly wiped out competition...
With the arrival of the FIRST SNOW, editors of the CRIMSON will retire to Plum Island to build after igloos and fish in the ocean for lost Christmas parties. They will send dispatches and happy thoughts south three times a week until the BIG THAW on Feb. 1. Distribution...
Henry Adams, by Elizabeth Stevenson, brought sound sense and a thaw of compassion to one of the finest minds and coolest customers in U.S. intellectual history. Biographer Stevenson also forged a convincing emotional link between Adams' Cassandra-like forebodings and his numb grief over his wife's suicide...
...Aldington's deflation of the legendary T.E. Lawrence, raised a storm in Britain. Regnery latched onto the book for publication in the U.S. Russell Kirk (The Conservative Mind, Academic Freedom) is one of his proudest discoveries. One of the stranger Regnery books was Soviet Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg's The Thaw (TIME, Oct. 10), which anti-Communist Regnery published as an example of the workings of the Soviet mind...