Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Head Count. When the topic is Germany, the new, relatively friendly "spirit of Moscow" obviously does not apply. The cold war's thaw can turn into a freeze over trifling matters-in last week's case, a demand that the passengers on Berlin-bound allied convoys dismount from their vehicles to be counted by Russian soldiers...
...Gabor makes out of her libido. "Crawling out of bed, I girdled myself," she would write, "with the aid of a block and tackle." Or, "I've been favorably compared to a whale, a pachyderm, a hippopotamus, an untidy featherbed, an Eskimo igloo during the summer thaw, a charwoman at daybreak. Prince Christian of Hesse, spotting me in bathing costume offshore at Antibes, mistook me for a rubber mattress. But I became a celebrity anyhow...
...mysterious reason" that you mention in your [Oct. 18] article for the detainment of U.S. convoys by the Communists is not so complex as it appears. The Russians, as they have shown the last few months, want a cold war thaw, but they also realize that '64 is election year. By creating this incident, they hoped to undermine the American's confidence in J.F.K.'s foreign policy, and thus bring about the election of a new, inexperienced President...
When-and if-the potatoes ripen, the Indians will eat some of them fresh, save others for seed, and turn the rest into chuño. Chuño-making begins when the temperature at night falls below freezing. Potatoes are left out to freeze, then thaw when the sun rises. Barefoot Indians tread out the moisture, leave the potatoes to freeze again, tread some more. After a fortnight they have chuño-a dehydrated potato that, with luck, will last all winter...
...swaps are not notably wholesome in the context of international principle, but last week's did add substance to the thaw talk. And then, for some mysterious reason that would require a Communist mind to explain, the Russians deliberately tried to unthaw the thaw...