Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond Moscow. The optimism was nourished by a dazzling display of Soviet amiability (see THE WORLD). Even so seasoned a veteran of diplomatic dealings with the Russians as the U.S.'s Special Envoy W. Averell Harriman was impressed with the signs of thaw. And Harriman, having served as ambassador to Stalin's Russia from 1943 to 1946 and on missions to Moscow on other occasions, surely knows well the wisdom of Demosthenes' counsel...
Past cold war "thaws" have proved to be only interludes between freeze-ups. But this time some Western diplomats thought they detected the promise of a thaw deeper and more durable than its predecessors-largely because Khrushchev now has compelling reasons to work toward a long-term easing of tensions. Foremost among them is his bitter doctrinal struggle with Red China. The gravity of that dispute was dramatically underscored by the contrasting cordiality of the East-West talks and the glum hostility that shrouded the Sino-Soviet parleys in Moscow. Also prodding Khrushchev to produce a test ban treaty...
...advent of real cheerfulness and kindliness in their stead. Smooth the brow, brighten the eye, contract the dorsal rather than the ventral aspect of the frame, and speak in a major key, pass the genial compliment and your heart must be frigid indeed if it do not gradually thaw...
...Frontier, the faces of foreign-policy officials were grimmer, paler and wearier than at any time since the Cuba missile crisis last October. White House and State Department spokesmen talked somberly of a sudden shift from thaw to freeze in the cold...
Reason for the shift in thinking was the good economic news for the government that came with spring's thaw after the worst winter of the century. Suddenly came word of new export records, booming retail sales and swelling company profits. Most welcome news of all last week was that the remorseless five-month rise in unemployment had finally drifted down to 604,000, off nearly 100,000 from the March figure...