Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Onetime Chorus Girl Evelyn Nesbit (Thaw), pawn in the famed Thaw-White murder 49 years ago, now the subject of a forthcoming movie biography, was chaperoned into Manhattan by movie flacks, told newsmen: "Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut. I live for the Everlasting...
...surpass the farthest reaches of the arctic. Their radio could receive messages but could not send. Movement was so difficult that it once took them five days to reach a photographic objective barely ten miles from their two-tent camp. For another five days, rising water in the spring thaw completely cut them off from land. As their provisions dwindled, they lived on canned macaroni alone, because the fish they hooked were too big to land on their lines. When an airplane finally picked them off the permafrost, LIFE printed their memorable full-color photographs of the Canadian tundra...
What about East-West trade, if, as the President hoped, a new dawn starts to thaw out the cold war? "Trade is the greatest weapon in the hands of the diplomat," but a rigid policy can leave the diplomat emptyhanded. Instead of saying, "We won't trade," the U.S. has to say, "When does trade in what things benefit us most and our friends...
...railroad and deployed them in five columns around Moscow. The fresh, well-officered Siberians pushed Von Bock's columns back out of artillery range of the capital. Then the Russian winter, the severest in 50 years, halted all but patrol activity. In the six months of snow and thaw, Zhukov, using methods like those employed by Trotsky in the civil war, created and equipped vast new armies...
...deal with ideas current in astrology-a house, a hand, an eye, a fish, a serpent . . . while, strangely enough, the last of all in the Hebrew is Taw, a 'mark,' a 'sacred symbol,' the Aramaic Tor, 'oryx' or 'ox,' the Arabic Thaw, the Greek Tauros, the Latin Taurus, the Germanic Thor, 'the Thunderer.' Two bulls? The first and last letter of the alphabet a bull? One is reminded of Alam and Alad, the two bulls of the Sumerians, one on the right hand- and the other on the left...