Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difference in the country's external policies, it has focused the energies of German leaders on campaigning rather than on the Common Market, made them reluctant to face the issue of farm price supports for fear of offending the farmers. France's December presidential vote promises a thaw only if, as seems unlikely, De Gaulle chooses...
...appeal to the Polish vote-though he can barely speak the language. Johnson appointed Gronouski Ambassador to Poland, replacing Career Diplomat John Moors Cabot. A newcomer to foreign affairs, Gronouski, 45, is nevertheless the grandson of a genuine Polish immigrant; his mission in Poland will attempt to thaw the chill in Washington-Warsaw relations-which are still warmer than U.S. dealings with any other Communist capital-that set in after the U.S. intensified its military response in Viet...
...with headlines when Kosygin promised the visiting Turks that the Kremlin would study ways to improve the living conditions of the hapless Turkish Cypriots. Though a new dollop of Soviet aid may come out of the trip, many Turks found Urguplii's junket to Moscow un settling. The thaw with Russia has had the effect of setting off a growing clam or by leftist politicians, intellectuals and editors that a few years ago would have landed the most vocal in jail. It was enough to cause some second thoughts. Istanbul's daily Diinya commented: "Improvement of Turkey...
...Ireland a three-week-old strike of gravediggers, who demanded longer vacations, is forcing mourners to bury their own dead. In Australia, 100 Queensland packinghouse workers struck for three days because, they cornplained, the beef carcasses were "too hard" to bone; they forced the company to let its meat thaw longer. In West Germany, smart Hausfrauen no longer complain if a German cleaning woman fails to appear on the job; they get to work themselves and woo her back with flowers. In Tokyo, maids quit at 5:30 p.m. to attend night school, and carpenters, who now stop...
...year-old man. After only a mouthwash sort of anesthesia, Dr. Cahan froze the surface of the cancer. Later he inserted the liquid nitrogen probe deep into the tissue. In each of three required operations, the tissues were frozen and allowed to thaw. The patient complained of only a mild burning sensation that lasted a few hours after each treatment. In three weeks, the cancer shrank to the size of a small...