Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history and thereby keep the study of "that prolonged disease known as 'the cult of personality' " from being monopolized by bourgeois historians and anti-Communist propagandists. "It is Communists," he writes, "who should be the strictest judges of their own history." He began his work in the thaw that followed Stalin's death. When he was finished twelve years later, the authorities had once again grown defensive. It was only after the Soviet Party Central Committee refused to permit its publication in the U.S.S.R. that Medvedev allowed his manuscript to reach an American publisher...
...emphasized the President's desire to have the American prisoners freed. By releasing two of the five Americans who are known to be languishing in Chinese cells, Peking demonstrated that in one case, at least, it is willing to go two-fifths of the way toward a thaw with...
...return. In an excursion arranged months before Stans' mis sion last week, 90 U.S. executives were in Moscow conferring with Soviet trade officials and industrial managers. Said William J. Barton, vice president of Business International, the research firm that sponsored the Moscow expedition: "There's a real thaw-you can almost hear the ice cracking...
...President's Pay Board and Price Commission almost until the hour of Phase II's arrival at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday. Even so, having endured a sudden and all but total three-month freeze, the economy has moved into a new climate of controlled thaw...
...American people don't want to have a freeze followed by a thaw where you get stuck in the mud, and we are not going to have that kind of thing. [Phase II] will have teeth in it. You cannot have jawboning that is effective without teeth...